php-jwt VS Laravel

So basically if the login is successfull I have to create a JWT token (with something like this library) with the userID inside and send it via `setcookie()` for web or in a JSON response to the API client and consider it the long lived refresh token.

This depends on the library you end up downloading for the platform of your choosing. Some of the parts I explained above will be handled by the library for example in my case I decoded signedTransactionInfo using firebase/php-jwt. This has the added benefit of always checking the validity of the signature which was omitted in the manual method.

https://github.com/firebase/php-jwt i use this one, its really good

> Why all the hate for JWTs?

> Just pick a crypto scheme and the JWT is just an encoding that makes it easier to use.

That's not what JWT is, but I can understand why someone would be misled into believing that.

JWT isn't just an encoding format, it also includes a crypto algorithm negotiation protocol that lets the attacker choose the algorithm. Even if you strictly allow-list which algorithm you want to support, you can accidentally bypass this control in many libraries if you suppor the `kid` (key ID) header. [1]

It also allows attackers to completely strip the security. [2] [3]

Put shortly, JWT is a gun aimed directly at your foot. That's why there's so much hate for JWTs.

[1] https://github.com/firebase/php-jwt/issues/351

[2] https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/03/jwt-json-web-tokens-is-ba...

[3] https://www.howmanydayssinceajwtalgnonevuln.com/

Hope this saves a future team from unexpected behavior resulting in (potential) production data loss.

When using Postgres, Laravel's default method for truncate uses the cascade option, which will ignore foreign key constraints and potentially wipe large amounts of data with no confirmation or warning.

It was originally introduced in 2018: https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/26389/files

Here are two threads on it if you are curious: https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/29506

I am just exploring middleware in this post, but as you can see this is quite a different approach than we've seen historically. I sat there scratching my head, "How do I set up my own middleware? How do I change the defaults?" I had to explore the Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Middleware class to find out.

For example check out this issue I reported on their side: https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/49089

It does not mean you should absolutely use it everywhere, but it can make sense for your case. Many frameworks, like Laravel use it to compose new projects.

https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/00894b89e42a9d707c...

Even Tinker is a few lines of code to extend PsySH and credit is barely given.

Taylor Otwell is a fiend for creating wrappers around solid open source libraries, using PHP magic and encouraging bad practices, all just to breed an ecosystem ultimately to land him a Lambo, fuelled by amazing open source foundations that have barely been contributed back to by him.

This same system has been used in Laravel since version 4.0* albeit in the more PHP plain way, using call_user_func_array (Laravel Model Class).