In this tutorial, I will let you know how to implement Laravel 5.4 API authentication using JWT with an example.

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For a web application to secure application resources it is important to implement authentication. When you are working on only web application it is easily done by the session but when we work on API then we can not maintain the authentication through the session. So for that, there are many other options to implement authentication through the tokens. Here we will discuss about the JWT (JSON Web Token).

JWT is generally used to send information that can be trusted and verified by means of a digital signature. Now the question arises that when and on which condition we should use JSON Web Tokens.