jwt-auth VS laravel-debugbar

First, thank you to everyone who contributed to Tymon's JWT Auth library. I found there were various issues with it (lasagna code, having to extend/override existing functionality, lack of functionality, etc.) that made it challenging to work with, which is what inspired me to create Little JWT.

Due to inactivity by the maintainer, this has forced laravel developers that use php 8, to look for alternatives. Here is a list of alternatives to the tymondesigns/jwt-auth package, that i have managed to find, in my quest to find alternative packages.

I'm not sure if Sanctum is fine for generating tokens because the jwt-auth package seems to be abandoned. For context, I'm used to develop with Laravel plain html, and now I want to separate front-end with Svelte and back-end with Laravel, as because I'm used to it. The questions is: Is it ok to just use Sanctum package? I know it's not really jwt token, but seems to do the job.

Jwt-auth

You can make a login route in api.php and then return the token if you want simpler token for authentication might I suggest that you use jwt token it's simple and it's docs show you how to use the jwt token https://github.com/tymondesigns/jwt-auth if you want something complex then sanctum can help you for example you can give token different abilities if you want to create an auth token use auth()->user()->createToken(); To create a token

You can use spatie roles and permissions. This package for jwt is good: https://github.com/tymondesigns/jwt-auth

tymon/jwt-auth: https://github.com/tymondesigns/jwt-auth tymon/jwt-auth document: https://jwt-auth.readthedocs.io/en/develop/

jwt-auth provides a simple means of authentication within Laravel using JSON Web Tokens. JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties. The claims in a JWT are encoded as a JSON object that is used as the payload of a JSON Web Signature (JWS) structure or as the plaintext of a JSON Web Encryption (JWE) structure, enabling the claims to be digitally signed or integrity protected with a Message Authentication Code (MAC) and/or encrypted.

Laravel Debugbar: Laravel Debugbar is a package that integrates PHP Debug Bar with Laravel. It provides a convenient toolbar that sits at the bottom of your application's pages and offers insights into various aspects of your application, including database queries, route information, views, events, and more. With its customizable configuration options and extensive feature set, Laravel Debugbar is an excellent choice for monitoring database queries and debugging your Laravel applications.

debugbar And n+1 query

tldr using debugbar is a good point, everything else is just use laravel when using laravel and avoid n+1 problem

Nice but I can get the same functionality with the debugbar - what makes this better?

We then used platform-specific performance analysis tools to determine which of these endpoints needed the most attention. The highest-traffic sites we needed to optimize used Laravel, a popular PHP framework. We used Laravel Debugbar to analyze those web apps.

Try installing laravel-debugbar, it will show you which parts of the app are slow (e.g. boot up vs views), which queries are slow, and how many queries run (helpful when you forgot to eager load some models).

I wanted to tweak Laravel Debugbar, so it could also work with any JSON API, but I ended up writing a minimal package of my own to do the trick.