Laravel 8 Authentication using Jetstream with Livewire

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For every web application – login & registration must be a needed part. Inside this article we will see Laravel 8 Authentication using Jetstream with livewire. We will use livewire in this tutorial for laravel 8 authentication.

Laravel founder Taylor otwell released laravel jetstream with livewire with simple authentication scaffolding but poweful to use.

Inside this we will see composer package for jetstream. Laravel 8 jetstream designed by Tailwind CSS. It publishes controllers for authentication system, views and routes to laravel application.

Apart from Livewire we can also use Interia.js for authentication scaffolding when we work with vue.js

Learn More –

• Concept of Global Middleware in Laravel 8 Tutorial
• Concept of Group Middleware in Laravel 8 Tutorial
• Concept of Route Group in Laravel 8 Tutorial
• Concept of Route Middleware in Laravel 8 Tutorial

Let’s get started – Laravel 8 Auth Scaffolding using Livewire Jetstream

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Laravel Installation

We will create laravel project using composer. So, please make sure your system should have composer installed. If not, may be this article will help you to Install composer in system.

Here is the command to create a laravel project-

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

To start the development server of Laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

Database also configured with application.

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Install Jetstream

We will use composer command to install jetstream library. Open project to terminal and hit this command into it.

$ composer require laravel/jetstream

While Installation you should see console screen like this.

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Create Auth with Livewire

Now, we are going to install livewire which will create authentication system for application. It consists of Login, Registration, Forgot Password, Profile, Dashboard, Two Setup authentication, Email verification etc.

To install Livewire –

$ php artisan jetstream:install livewire

When we install we should see console screen like in this way –

Next, we need to run command to install node js packges.

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Installing Node Js Packages

Back to terminal and type this command and run.

$ npm install && npm run dev

This will give a screen view as –

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Laravel Migration

Next, we need to migrate tables into database.

$ php artisan migrate

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Generated Scaffolding Files

When we open jetsream.php file, we will see ‘stack’ => ‘livewire’, because we are using livewire as stack.

Configuration Files at /app/config

Feature List of authentication module

Action Files at /app/Actions

Blade Template Files or scaffolding files at /resources/views

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Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

URL- 127.0.0.1:8000

When we click on register link, it will open

For Login page,

Dashboard Page

Profile Page,

We hope this article helped you to learn about Laravel 8 Authentication using Jetstream with Livewire in a very detailed way.

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