#RESTful API - laravel default un-hashed token based approach...

###Step - 1

• Modify users_table migration with adding a column name api_token
  • Must be unique value $table->string('api_token', 80)->unique()->nullable()->default(null);

###Step - 2

• Make sure the driver is token in config/auth.php under guards array. like below -

'api' => [ 'driver' => 'token', 'provider' => 'users', 'hash' => false, ]

###Step - 3

• Go to User model User.php file and add the following method -

    public function createToken() {

        do {

            $randStr = Str::random(80);

            $exist = $this->where('api_token', $randStr)->exists();

        } while($exist);


        $this->api_token = $randStr;

        $this->save();

        return $this;
    }

###Step - 4

• Just go to your api.php routes file and do the thing you need to do......