Best User Auth

Good day,

I see conflicting information about how to do user authentication. And I'm not sure if some of them are dated, or how relevant they are to the application I started a couple of months ago. I noticed when I created the application it came with a User model that extends Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User.

My needs are very modest. User sign up. Ability to set user roles like viewer, editor, approver, admin. I suppose the ability to use Facebook or Twitter would be a plus, but I'm not worried about that.

Which part of the documentation will show how to do that, or what tutorial would you recommend? I'm new to Laravel and not sure of the recent history. Are there deprecated methods i should avoid or ones that have fallen out of favour?