auth-and-authorization

Laravel Sanctum provides lightweight authentication for SPAs and APIs. You can configure cookie-based authentication for single-page applications or generate API tokens for external clients to secure your application endpoints effectively.

Use Gates for action-level authorization checks like viewing an admin dashboard, and Policies for model-level authorization like updating a specific Post. Both support role-based access control to enforce fine-grained user permissions.

Yes, you can share authentication status and RBAC permissions with Inertia.js. This allows you to perform frontend permission checks and provide a seamless user experience without compromising application security.

Yes, integrating with Laravel Fortify provides headless password reset and email verification flows. This ensures your application handles secure credential recovery and verifies user identities without requiring a custom frontend.

You can implement unit and feature tests for authentication and authorization logic by simulating user logins and asserting access restrictions. This ensures your Sanctum tokens, Gates, and Policies enforce security rules correctly.

Yes, the implementation details strategies for role-based access control including integration with spatie/laravel-permission. It also covers enum-based roles to manage user permissions and access levels effectively.