laravel passport: Request user() returning null outside auth:api middleware, and inside returning user object

Question

When I am tring to get loggedin user details using auth:api middleware, it returns user object with details in my controller function.

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Answer 1

The auth middleware is the one returning the user. auth:api just indicates to use the API guard. In the source code of laravel, the file vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Auth/Middleware/Authenticate.php line 62, the function shouldUse is the one setting the Auth::user() object. Check out also vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Auth/AuthManager.php shouldUse function