How to implement authentication for web application in Laravel 5.2

Hi Everybody,

Today we will discuss how to implement authentication for web application in Laravel 5.2

Many of the applications you build in Laravel have a similar Saas-type framework: user signup, user login, password reset, public sales page, logged-in dashboard, logout route, and a base Bootstrap style for when you're just getting started.

Now all resource related to login, register and home page generate by one command(given below) in Laravel 5.2

php artisan make:auth

Command line output of artisan make:auth

What does it provide? Let's dig in.

What changed(from Laravel 5.1 to Laravel 5.2)

We have a layout (resources/views/layouts/app.blade.php) that is the core of this scaffold, and then a series of views that extend it:

welcome.blade.php - the public welcome page
home.blade.php - the dashboard for logged-in users
auth/login.blade.php - the login page
auth/register.blade.php - the register/signup page
auth/passwords/email.blade.php - the password reset confirmation page
auth/passwords/reset.blade.php - the password reset prompt page
auth/emails/password.blade.php - the password reset email

Our public page is still routed via routes.php:

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});
And we now have a HomeController, which routes our dashboard:

class HomeController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Show the application dashboard.
     *
     * @return Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        return view('home');
    }
}

This is of course routed in routes.php in the web group. And notice that there's something else new there: The Route::auth() method:

Route::group(['middleware' => 'web'], function () {
    Route::auth();

    Route::get('/home', 'HomeController@index');
});

Route::auth()

The auth() method is a shortcut to defining the following routes:

// Authentication Routes...
$this->get('login', 'Auth\AuthController@showLoginForm');
$this->post('login', 'Auth\AuthController@login');
$this->get('logout', 'Auth\AuthController@logout');

// Registration Routes...
$this->get('register', 'Auth\AuthController@showRegistrationForm');
$this->post('register', 'Auth\AuthController@register');

// Password Reset Routes...
$this->get('password/reset/{token?}', 'Auth\PasswordController@showResetForm');
$this->post('password/email', 'Auth\PasswordController@sendResetLinkEmail');
$this->post('password/reset', 'Auth\PasswordController@reset');

The frontend

Now let's take a look at what we get in the browser:

Screenshot of the output from a default auth scaffold view

As you can see we have Bootstrap CSS, a basic Bootstrap app layout, and helpful to our basic auth actions.

App.blade.php 

So what does this master layout look like?

We get FontAwesome, the Lato font, Bootstrap CSS, a basic hamburger-on-mobile responsive layout, jQuery, Bootstrap JS, and placeholders that are commented out for the default output CSS and JS files if you choose to use Elixir.

We also have a top nav that links us home, and links guests to either login or register, and links authenticated users to log out.

Conclusion 

That's it! It's not anything complex, but it's 30-60 minutes of typing that you just saved on every app that needs it.