auth:api problem in Ajax

What is your form post route?

My api route (in api.php) is

Route::post('/user', function (Request $request) {
    return $request->user();
})->middleware('auth:api');

And in Vue

this.$http.post('/api/user')

If I remove ->middleware('auth:api') the route works fine.

@subpublic Have you added the '\Laravel\Passport\Http\Middleware\CreateFreshApiToken::class,' to your Kernel.php file within the 'web' middleware group?

See here

Thanks!

I had fooled around a bit too much with passport. When adding that plus setting 'driver' => 'passport' in my ayth.php it started working.

Question, do I really need passport for regular api-token authentication?

Why not? I'm going through the same thing at the moment, I don't need passport other than for my own front-end app, but I may in the future.

Hi there. I'm having the same problem and this is bugging me. Do I have to install Passport (a tool to ease the OAuth Server creation) just so I can use my API via JavaScript?

Shouldn't it be easier? I want to use the API via JS only when I am authenticated. How can I accomplish that?

Yep you can; install passport, and read over the docs mentioned above. :)

@jfvoliveira At last I found out the problem. If you only want to make simple Ajax requests, don't put those urls in the /api. You can just use middleware('web') and respond in json.

@subpublic I've tried that but if I include the auth middleware (I need it as I need to know what user did what action) I keep getting the TokenMismatchException.

@jfvoliveira The auth middleware works fine for me, as long as I keep the routes in web.php. But I did have some token trouble, but couldn't really understand if it was bacause I had installed the auth:api or if I had moved around to many files. So I set up a brand new Laravel without auth:api and now it works just fine.

Instead of using Laravel/Passport I create my own middleware for ajax request :)