PHP Auth Kit

A small Laravel Sanctum auth API with a static browser frontend for testing registration, login, authenticated user lookup, and logout.

Project Layout

• backend/ - Laravel API with Sanctum token authentication.
• frontend/ - Static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript client.

Requirements

• PHP 8.3 or newer
• Composer
• Python 3, only used to serve the static frontend locally

Run The Backend

cd backend
composer install
php artisan migrate
php artisan serve --host=127.0.0.1 --port=8000

The API will be available at:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/api

Run The Frontend

Open a second terminal:

cd frontend
python -m http.server 5173 --bind 127.0.0.1

Then open:

http://127.0.0.1:5173/login.html

API Endpoints

• POST /api/register - Create a user and return a bearer token.
• POST /api/login - Sign in and return a bearer token.
• GET /api/me - Return the authenticated user.
• POST /api/logout - Revoke the current token.

Protected endpoints require:

Authorization: Bearer <token>

Tests

cd backend
php artisan test