How to enable both api and web guard in laravel

Question

Laravel 5.7

PHP 7.2.10

Currently I am able to use any one of web and api guards, is there any way to allow both, so that both web app and api will work together.

Something like

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Authentication Defaults
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | This option controls the default authentication "guard" and password
    | reset options for your application. You may change these defaults
    | as required, but they're a perfect start for most applications.
    |
    */

    'defaults' => [
        'guard' => 'api|web',
        'passwords' => 'users',
    ],

with out using schema, here is a solution/workaround which needs changes in schema, what I will not prefer. Also I do not need access token for registration, what this answer is doing.

api.php

Route::group([
    'middleware' => 'api|web',
    'prefix' => 'auth'
], function ($router) {

   Route::post('register', 'Auth\AuthController@register')->name('api.register');
    Route::post('forgot-password', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@forgotPassword')->name('api.forgot-password');
    Route::post('login', 'Auth\AuthController@login')->name('api.login');
    Route::middleware('auth')->post('logout', 'Auth\AuthController@logout')->name('api.logout');

web.php

Auth::routes(['verify' => true]);
Route::prefix('admin')->group(function () {
 Route::middleware('auth', 'permission:super-admin|association-member')->resource('users', 'Auth\UserController');
});

config/auth.php

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Authentication Defaults
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | This option controls the default authentication "guard" and password
    | reset options for your application. You may change these defaults
    | as required, but they're a perfect start for most applications.
    |
    */

    'defaults' => [
        'guard' => 'web', //api
        'passwords' => 'users',
    ],

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Authentication Guards
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Next, you may define every authentication guard for your application.
    | Of course, a great default configuration has been defined for you
    | here which uses session storage and the Eloquent user provider.
    |
    | All authentication drivers have a user provider. This defines how the
    | users are actually retrieved out of your database or other storage
    | mechanisms used by this application to persist your user's data.
    |
    | Supported: "session", "token"
    |
    */

    'guards' => [
        'web' => [
            'driver' => 'session',
            'provider' => 'users',
        ],

        'api' => [
            'driver' => 'jwt',
            'provider' => 'users',
        ],
    ],

Update As @apokryfos said, If you want both to work for both then yes. However, I think that's bad practice. API routes should only allow API authentication since web authentication usually uses the session which API routes don't use anyway. If I were you I'd take a step back and rethink my entire strategy.

I too do not want to make both work for both, I just want to make work both api and web app parallelly, now I am able to use any one of them.

Update2 As @Lim Kean Phang suggested the git issue link

I changed

  protected function respondWithToken($token)
    {
        return response()->json([
            'access_token' => $token,
            'token_type' => 'bearer',
            'expires_in' =>  auth('api')->factory()->getTTL() * 60,//auth()->factory()->getTTL() * 60,
            'status' => 200,
            "response" => "Successfully login",
        ]);
    }

The expires_in value, but now I am not getting the access token.

The api response is

{
    "access_token": true,
    "token_type": "bearer",
    "expires_in": 31536000,
    "status": 200,
    "response": "Successfully login"
}

Update 3 Added a github issue as could not find any possible solution to make it work.

Answer 1

I changed the AuthController to something like

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Auth;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class AuthController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Create a new AuthController instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('auth:api', ['except' => ['login']]);
    }

    /**
     * Get a JWT via given credentials.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
     */
    public function login()
    {
        $credentials = request(['username', 'password']);

        $token = auth()->guard('api')->attempt($credentials);

        if (!$token) {
            return response()->json(['error' => 'Unauthorized'], 401);
        }

        return $this->respondWithToken($token);
    }

    /**
     * Log the user out (Invalidate the token).
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
     */
    public function logout()
    {
        auth()->guard('api')->logout();

        return response()->json(['message' => 'Successfully logged out']);
    }

    /**
     * Refresh a token.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
     */
    public function refresh()
    {
        return $this->respondWithToken(auth()->refresh());
    }

    /**
     * Get the token array structure.
     *
     * @param string $token
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
     */
    protected function respondWithToken($token)
    {
        return response()->json([
            'access_token' => $token,
            'token_type'   => 'bearer',
            'expires_in'   => auth('api')->factory()->getTTL() * 60,
        ]);
    }
}

And in api.php changing auth to jwt.auth solves the problem.

Route::group([
    'middleware' => 'api',
    'prefix' => 'auth'
], function ($router) {

    Route::post('register', 'Auth\AuthController@register')->name('api.register');
    Route::post('forgot-password', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@forgotPassword')->name('api.forgot-password');
    Route::post('login', 'Auth\AuthController@login')->name('api.login');
    Route::middleware('jwt.auth')->post('logout', 'Auth\AuthController@logout')->name('api.logout');
    Route::middleware('auth')->post('refresh', 'Auth\AuthController@refresh')->name('api.refresh');
    Route::middleware('jwt.auth')->post('me', 'Auth\AuthController@me')->name('api.me');
});