Laravel 5.3 Passport JWT Authentication

Question

Earlier when I was using laravel 5.2, i used a third party package https://github.com/tymondesigns/jwt-auth/ for making JWT based authentication. Where we just had to pass t

Answer 1

You got this all mixed up. Passport is ideal for Facebook-like applications where you want your users’ clients to securely authenticate to your API.

If all you are doing is building a rest API for example a health and fitness app, using the Tyson JWT package suffices. This is because you don’t have the middleman.