The auth scaffold in Laravel 5.2

If you're like me, many of the applications you build in Laravel have a similar Saas-type framework: user signup, user login, password reset, public sales page, logged-in dashboard, logout route, and a base Bootstrap style for when you're just getting started.

Laravel used to have a scaffold for this out of the box. It disappeared recently, to my great chagrin, but it's now back as an Artisan command: make:auth.

What does it provide? Let's dig in.

What changed? #

We have a layout (resources/views/layouts/app.blade.php) that is the core of this scaffold, and then a series of views that extend it:

• welcome.blade.php - the public welcome page
• home.blade.php - the dashboard for logged-in users
• auth/login.blade.php - the login page
• auth/register.blade.php - the register/signup page
• auth/passwords/email.blade.php - the password reset confirmation page
• auth/passwords/reset.blade.php - the password reset prompt page
• auth/emails/password.blade.php - the password reset email

Our public page is still routed via routes.php:

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

And we now have a HomeController, which routes our dashboard:

class HomeController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Show the application dashboard.
     *
     * @return Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        return view('home');
    }
}

This is of course routed in routes.php in the web group. And notice that there's something else new there: The Route::auth() method:

Route::group(['middleware' => 'web'], function () {
    Route::auth();

    Route::get('/home', 'HomeController@index');
});

Route::auth() #

The auth() method is a shortcut to defining the following routes:

// Authentication Routes...
$this->get('login', 'Auth\AuthController@showLoginForm');
$this->post('login', 'Auth\AuthController@login');
$this->get('logout', 'Auth\AuthController@logout');

// Registration Routes...
$this->get('register', 'Auth\AuthController@showRegistrationForm');
$this->post('register', 'Auth\AuthController@register');

// Password Reset Routes...
$this->get('password/reset/{token?}', 'Auth\PasswordController@showResetForm');
$this->post('password/email', 'Auth\PasswordController@sendResetLinkEmail');
$this->post('password/reset', 'Auth\PasswordController@reset');

The frontend #

Now let's take a look at what we get in the browser:

As you can see we have Bootstrap CSS, a basic Bootstrap app layout, and helpful to our basic auth actions.

App.blade.php #

So what does this master layout look like?

We get FontAwesome, the Lato font, Bootstrap CSS, a basic hamburger-on-mobile responsive layout, jQuery, Bootstrap JS, and placeholders that are commented out for the default output CSS and JS files if you choose to use Elixir.

We also have a top nav that links us home, and links guests to either login or register, and links authenticated users to log out.

Conclusion #

That's it! It's not anything complex, but it's 30-60 minutes of typing that you just saved on every app that needs it.

from : https://mattstauffer.co/blog/the-auth-scaffold-in-laravel-5-2