Laravel Installation

Run the following command to pull in the latest version:

composer require php-open-source-saver/jwt-auth

Add the service provider to the providers array in the config/app.php config file as follows:

'providers' => [

    ...

    PHPOpenSourceSaver\JWTAuth\Providers\LaravelServiceProvider::class,
]

Run the following command to publish the package config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="PHPOpenSourceSaver\JWTAuth\Providers\LaravelServiceProvider"

You should now have a config/jwt.php file that allows you to configure the basics of this package.

I have included a helper command to generate a key for you:

php artisan jwt:secret

This will update your .env file with something like JWT_SECRET=foobar

It is the key that will be used to sign your tokens. How that happens exactly will depend on the algorithm that you choose to use.

For generating certificates the command

php artisan jwt:generate-certs

can be used. The .env file will be updated, to use the newly created certificates.

The command accepts for following paramters

name	description
force	override existing certificates
algo	Either rsa or ec
bits	Key length for rsa
curve	Curve to be used for ec
sha	Hashing algorithm
passphrase	Passphrase for the cert
dir	Folder to place the certificates

Generating a 4096 bit rsa certificate with sha 512

php artisan jwt:generate-certs --force --algo=rsa --bits=4096 --sha=512

Generating a ec certificate with prime256v1-curve and sha 512

php artisan jwt:generate-certs --force --algo=ec --curve=prime256v1 --sha=512