Laravel Sanctum provides a featherweight authentication system for SPAs and simple token-based APIs. For a typical blog or portfolio backend it is all you need.
Token-based auth
Issue scoped tokens per client and never store raw tokens in the database — keep only the hash that Sanctum generates.
$user->createToken("mobile", ["posts:read"])->plainTextToken;Shape resources early
Use API resources to keep your response shapes stable, and cache read-heavy endpoints with Cache::remember to stay fast under load.