Laravel - Authentication - Adding Custom Guards

You may define your own authentication guards using the extend method on the Auth facade. You should place your call to the extend method within a service provider. Since Laravel already ships with an AuthServiceProvider, we can place the code in that provider:

    
    registerPolicies();
    
            Auth::extend('jwt', function ($app, $name, array $config) {
                // Return an instance of Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Guard...
    
                return new JwtGuard(Auth::createUserProvider($config['provider']));
            });
        }
    }
	

As you can see in the example above, the callback passed to the extend method should return an implementation of Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Guard. This interface contains a few methods you will need to implement to define a custom guard. Once your custom guard has been defined, you may reference the guard in the guards configuration of your auth.php configuration file:

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