Laravel Sanctum SPA Tutorial - React SPA Authentication With Sanctum

[@7Janiel]

use 'then' for success response and 'catch' for error example: apiCallFunction(params) .then(data => { console.log('Success:', data); }) .catch((error) => { console.error('Error:', error); }); Good tutorial

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you. I did use .then(), agree about catch though 👍

[@RiiPlay69]

Hey! I was looking for this kind of thing for so long, thank you for sharing this, most helpful tutorial I found about the topic (especially the handling on the client-side) !

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad to hear, thank you 💙

[@thedavistheory7674]

Guys btw, there was a breaking change a few months ago and so if you are using the latest version of axios, you should include the withXSRFToken: true property as well

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thanks for the tip

[@dibbyo456]

Exactly what I was looking, I will try implement this on my new vuejs project.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Awesome, good luck

[@alaskim3956]

best video and explanation ever love u bro you made my day easy 💖💖💖

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad to hear that, thank you 🙏

[@prasoojas2093]

Thanks for the quality tutorials❤

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad you like them, thank you

[@permanar_]

Hello. I'm kinda new to backend stuff so, how do we do if we want to it works also on different domains? You previously mentioned that this (sanctum) only work within the same domain right? Then is there any alternative? Should I go with Passport?

[@ProgramWithGio]

Hello. You could use sanctum for that but instead of session based auth you would use token based auth. Sanctum has that ability, when request is coming from a diff domain it will try to authenticate using the bearer token.

[@permanar_]

@@ProgramWithGio hey, thanks for the kind reply man. Ok, I got it. But anyway, then what's the difference between Sanctum and Passport?

[@ProgramWithGio]

No problem. I have a video on that, check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5XcoIGtm66GbpI

[@yeongjong9395]

Hello! Thanks for the great tutorial!! I'm wondering, is there an alternative approach to getInitialProps in the higher-order component (withAuth) as I am using ReactJS (scaffolded from Laravel). Thanks.

[@ProgramWithGio]

You're welcome. Is your SPA (react) on same repository as Laravel? I assume it is since you mentioned it's scaffolded from Laravel. There are few ways you could achieve about the same. One is to simply store isLoggedIn flag in meta tag on your app.blade.php and access it from your react app and store in context and use that to check if user is logged in it not.

[@yeongjong9395]

@@ProgramWithGio Thanks for the quick response. Yes. Is in the same folder. Will try that. Thanks 😊 what if in future I would have to separate into two different folder, is there anyway way to do that? Thanks.

[@ProgramWithGio]

​ @Yeong Jong You could also do the same thing I did in this video without getInitialProps, its just getInitialProps allows you to check things on the server before rendering anything on the client-side, avoiding that bit of a flash of the dashboard page if the user is not logged in (10:42), but in most cases that is ok though. So you could simply store isLoggedIn in a cookie the same way when the user logs in & store it in context. It would still work.

[@yeongjong9395]

@@ProgramWithGio thanks for the suggestion. Will definitely try it. Yeah. I noticed that getInitialProps is part of NextJS, which is not available in ReactJS

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@yeongjong9395 You're welcome. Good luck

[@M7mdCC]

Awesome tutorial 👍👍 Please make tutorial for nextjs Apollo client + laravel lighthouse graphql + sanctum

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you. GraphQL is in my list of things I want to make tutorials on, so hopefully I get to it soon 🤞

[@M7mdCC]

@@ProgramWithGio Also if you have time to continue this with some videos series' like fetching data with SWR , pagination ! Thanks 🙏

[@sazalahamed1443]

hello, your laravel project & react project is different and independent. But I installed reactjs inside laravel project. that means URL+PORT is same for me. so what changes is needed there for .env... please give me an answer for it... I loved your style ## I didn't use NextJS

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you. Are you building SPA? I don't think you need much changes in .env because domain is same. If it's not SPA you probably don't even need Sanctum

[@sazalahamed1443]

​@@ProgramWithGio Yeah, I am creating SPA with laravel backend rest api. this is my ReactJS directory "resources/js/...." inside laravel. please give me guide. github.com/DevSazal/reactjs-tweets-crud-app-by-laravel-v8-restapi/blob/master/resources/js/pages/Main.js ## I didn't use NextJS

[@ProgramWithGio]

​@@sazalahamed1443 By the looks of it I don't think you need to make same changes as I did with nextjs to your .env because you have your SPA on the same repo, the CSRF token is initialized for you & saved in meta field. In my case nextjs app was in separate repository & on subdomain, for those cases I needed to use Sanctum. You technically don't even need Sanctum to be honest, regular session based auth should work. Have you tried without Sanctum?

[@sazalahamed1443]

@@ProgramWithGio hey brother, I did try without sanctum firstly, but that time it will not work correctly. Then I used sanctum middleware way with api route file, and it works for protecting API routes. that's api crud operation worked only when user logged. {1st problem} by after successfully logging redirect not work. It tried "react-router-dom" let history = useHistory(); history.push("/home"); but above code not worked and says "Invalid Hook Call Warning". {2ND} withAuth(Main) is not preventing "Main" component by url from non-logged user. means operation isn't acceptable as he is still non-logged user by laravel backend. ** your case, you used redirect with next-router.

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@sazalahamed1443 In order to prevent user from accessing protected page you need to store "isLoggedIn" flag somewhere in React, either a cookie or context, in your case you can just use context, & then check in your router or higher order component if user is logged in or not, if user is not logged in & the page requires user to be logged in redirect user to login page. The issue sounds like it has something to do with React & not with Laravel, so I would look into some React tutorials, you basically just need to keep the "isLoggedIn" flag on front-end to control when & where to redirect user

[@jooeeee]

Thank you for your video ! I haven't seen all the video but i will. We have React Front-end App and Laravel Back-end App, and we are wonder how to manage user's session. Maybe Sanctum can do the job, i have trying Passport but i wonder if it's the best choice.

[@ProgramWithGio]

If both react and API are on same domain you can use Sanctum sessions. I personally prefer Sanctum. Unless you need oAuth features I would go with Sanctum instead of Passport.

[@jooeeee]

@@ProgramWithGio Thanks a lot for your advices :)

[@jooeeee]

@@ProgramWithGio I have a Webservice between React App and Laravel, is this configuration can work with sanctum ? When i log in, i have no CRSF cookie. I have put into the .env of API Laravel : SANCTUM_STATEFUL_DOMAINS=localhost:8688 (which is correspond to the webservice).

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@jooeeee SANCTUM_STATEFUL_DOMAINS should be your SPA domain, what is the purpose of the Webservice that runs between SPA & API?

[@jooeeee]

@@ProgramWithGio Okay, i will try to set this. Bidirectional interactions between SPA and API.

[@beberosak]

Hi, great video!... At 10:00 I was wondering if wouldn't be better to just throw error instead of rejecting it?, otherwise you won't be able to tap into 422 validation messages.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you. Sure you could do it that way, there are multiple ways of doing it. I think in other videos where I add Laravel Fortify I change this to catch 422 as well github.com/ggelashvili/laravel-fortify-spa-frontend/blob/main/src/util/api.js

[@MohdRusmanAriefARahman]

Why do we need to add login and logout tu cors.php? Is that referring to the POST login and POST logout? We are not using the GET request for both login and logout right?

[@ProgramWithGio]

Because in this video login & logout routes are within web.php file and not within api.php so had to allow them. In Laravel Fortify series I move those routes to api.php & remove them from cors.php. I mentioned in the video that you don't need to do that if your login/logout routes are within api.php then you would make post request to /api/login & /api/logout. In my case for this video I make post requests to /login & /logout (04:34)

[@gustavosantos1152]

Hello! I'm facing some issues in auth part. I'm following the auth flow apparently right. I call the endpoit to set CSRF cookie then I call the endpoint to login, and it returns 200 code, but when I try to reach some protected endpoint it returns 401 Unauthorized. I checked the cookies and all are being sent correctly. Could you help me? Thanks

[@ProgramWithGio]

Hello. What is your session driver set to in env and session domain? You can DM me on twitter and I can help you troubleshoot this issue

[@JoshuaTHawkins]

@@ProgramWithGio Did you ever solve Gustavo's problem? I'm encountering the exact same issue.

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@JoshuaTHawkins yes, I think he had a typo in his env variable, SANCTUM_STATEFUL_DOMAIN missing S in the end, should be SANCTUM_STATEFUL_DOMAINS Check if it's the same issue.

[@JoshuaTHawkins]

@@ProgramWithGio It actually was a different issue. But I managed to solve it. Thanks again for your great tutorial!

[@william.darrigo]

@@JoshuaTHawkins hey Josh. i'm having the same error. Could you please tell what you did to solve this? Thank you

[@Dushan1999]

Nice video man! Can you please tell me one example of your login credentials, since all seeded data is encrypted and i can't login to see the dashboard?

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you. Just make a user through tinker either using factory or manually creating a new user model & saving it. If you are using my code you would have no users by default, you need to create it.

[@jahadempire7934]

Can you include the logged-in user details in NextJS? where you will store it on Redux? Nuxt has auth-module where we can just access the user details of logged-in user.

[@ProgramWithGio]

I don't use Redux but you can store them using context. You could make a get request to fetch user details and store necessary info in context.

[@jahadempire7934]

@@ProgramWithGio hi, may I know your opinion why you don't use redux?

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@jahadempire7934 I don't have a use for it. For my needs context hooks are more than enough. I'm sure Redux has its use cases but I don't like to overcomplicate codebase when it's not needed

[@ironsand]

If I set the constant SESSION_DOMAIN=localhost in my .env file, the request to '/sanctum/csrf-cookie' simply won't set the cookie anymore -- it does absolutely nothing. When I remove the .env constant, it sets the cookies again. Does anyone understand why is this happening?

[@ProgramWithGio]

Sorry for the super late reply, I just saw this comment, I did not get notified when you added a comment so it was kind of lost in the limbo. If you are still having an issue with this & have not figured it out ping me on Twitter & I can help troubleshoot it 👍

[@iceweex1]

I think isLoggedIn condition is not secure, because if you use hoc withAuth on the page without any API request and you manually set cookie to true, you can get to the protected page on the FE, am I wrong?

[@ProgramWithGio]

I explain that scenario in the video (8:44). You won't get any useful information or action if you manually set that to true. The moment it hits API you will be auto-logged out on the frontend and redirected to the Login page.

[@_ulghun]

hello, thank you for very helpful tutorial ✨ in the video 8:17 you didn't explain how do you store cookie to the server, and what happen if I login success and then remove ticket_managment cookie from browser , goto then '/login' page and login second time ? I tried my self this process and I got cors error, can you help me resolve this problem?

[@ProgramWithGio]

Cookies are handled by Laravel so not sure what the question is. 8:44 I explain what happens if you manually create the cookie. Do you mean the cookies stored from nextjs? It simply creates and stores cookies the same way you would do it in PHP. You might need to add the handling for the case where you manually remove the logged in cookie and then visit /login page. Though I'm not getting cors errors, can you share the .env file?

[@КириллБелоусов-ы5е]

in which folder is the admin panel created? in client project or inside laravel project?

[@ProgramWithGio]

It depends. I would put admin panel separately from the client unless the end users are able to log in also. So it depends what sort of admin panel you have.

[@madtin]

Hello! Im having trouble having my nextjs app in localhost:3000 and my laravel app in a vhost locally which is something like laravelapp.test Is it possible to set the cookie having this setup?

[@ProgramWithGio]

Don't think so because it's not same top level domain. You can have Laravel app on different port on localhost and then it will work, or you have to make your nextjs app be subdomain something like spa.laravelapp.test, though I have not tried such setup

[@leonardonoriega6563]

does this works on PWA? and how should we do this for an ract-native app for example?

[@ProgramWithGio]

You would use tokens for mobile app. Here is video on authenticating react native with Sanctum kzbin.info/www/bejne/r56voX-NoNGtrrM

[@leonardonoriega6563]

@@ProgramWithGio i realized bit before this comment but thanks!. amazing content you got here. was exactly what i need

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@leonardonoriega6563 thank you 🙌

[@eleazarfederio1718]

what if i see the XSRF-TOKEN & laravel_session in the response header but it doesn't save in the browser cookie?

[@ProgramWithGio]

Most likely a misconfiguration. What's your SESSION_DRIVER, SESSION_DOMAIN & SANCTUM_STATEFUL_DOMAINS set to in .env?

[@eleazarfederio1718]

@@ProgramWithGio my SESSION_DRIVER, SESSION_DOMAIN & SANCTUM_STATEFUL_DOMAINS are all set to 127.0.0.1

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@eleazarfederio1718 That is not correct, SESSION_DRIVER has to be file, cookie, redis, etc, check for available options, for now, set it to file so you can get it working. SESSION_DOMAIN should be localhost & SANCTUM_STATEFUL_DOMAINS should be your SPA domain whatever port that is on so if your SPA is on port 3000 then this would be set to localhost:3000

[@ITONEMM]

Is it working with different domain if frontend with proxy request feature?

[@ProgramWithGio]

Sorry for the super late reply, just came across this comment, KZbin did not notify me about it. I'm not exactly sure what you mean, if you still need help on this feel free to send me a DM on Twitter 💙

[@modaralkasem4027]

The GET method is not supported for this route. Supported methods: POST..... why this error showed to me on login route ??

[@ProgramWithGio]

Which route? That error means that you are making GET request on a route that expects POST request. Same route with GET request doesn't exist.

[@modaralkasem4027]

@@ProgramWithGio no i make this post request: this.axiosInstance.post('/signIn' ,{ email:this.state.sentUserName, password:this.state.sentPassword } and my route in laravel is : Route::post('/signIn' , [AuthController::class , 'signIn'])->name('signIn');

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@modaralkasem4027 Check in your JS if you are making another GET request to /signIn because that error simply means you are making a GET request where POST is expected. Are you sure the issue is related to /signIn route & not another route? If you share your code on github I can take a look, without code its hard to know what the issue is.

[@modaralkasem4027]

@@ProgramWithGio i think i select my problem which is xsrf cookie not saved and not showed on browser application tap so when make next request the response be ''csrf' token dismatch

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@modaralkasem4027 It's hard to see what the issue is without looking at the code. I would suggest you to try setting it up using my code first & then see what you are missing in your code.

[@mariusguissou4282]

The subject that you broached is very very interesting but we do not see anything practical on your screen. For your next videos remember to zoom in to make things more visible. If you can take this video by improving the image, that would make us happy. Thank you, you do a good job.

[@ProgramWithGio]

If you mean the font size & zooming in on the browser I agree that can & will be improved for future videos & have been improved in my PHP course's latest videos. This was one of the first videos that I've made, still new to creating content on youtube but improving step by step :). Thank you for the feedback 👍

[@munandisichali605]

Does this tech stack work on XAMP? I have a problem where it is not connecting to the server

[@ProgramWithGio]

Haven't tried it on XAMPP so not 100% sure. I would try Laravel sail with Docker, it's pretty simple to set it up

[@munandisichali605]

@@ProgramWithGio I think my problem is there, Lots of tutorials don't take into consideration US who are using xampp due to the cost of online developments, Thanks for your reply, I appreciate

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@munandisichali605 I take that into consideration and in my PHP course used XAMPP in the beginning as well. It's just not practical with Laravel which is why I don't use it. For everything else XAMPP is perfectly fine. You can also try Laradock. What error do you get?

[@memack101]

Thank you.

[@ProgramWithGio]

You're welcome

[@ngabohakiza3988]

WHAT WASD THE TICKET THING

[@ProgramWithGio]

Can you elaborate?

[@perfect.stealth]

Sometimes it logs in, sometimes it responds 429 Too Many Requests

[@ProgramWithGio]

I'm sorry for the super late reply, I have not seen this comment until now, I did not get any notification about it. If you are still having an issue with this ping me on Twitter & I can help troubleshoot it 💙