How to Integrate Laravel Passport (Laravel 5.3) in Lumen 5.3 or generate Oauth2 token with library dusterio/lumen-passport?

Question

I am trying to integrate Oauth2 authentication and found Taylor Otwell did a nice work for it with Laravel Passport. I am trying to integrate the same to create REST API, I google for integration and found a nice library for integration with link below.

https://github.com/dusterio/lumen-passport

I started work and follow the easy steps given by the author on github and composer package website. it starts and his given links are working.

I try to search over google but I do not found anything that show how can I integrate it.

But I do not found anything to generate token by providing username and password?

Answer 1

If you are using Lumen you don't need to integrate Laravel Passport there is a lumen passport available on github

https://github.com/dusterio/lumen-passport

It will work fine with Lumen.

Thanks!

Answer 2

If you are using laravel 5.3 passport then you dont need to use any other external libraries to create access token and generate clients for your users through username and password.

I have previously written a detailed step by step guide on how to make use of laravel 5.3 passport for your APIs and to generate access tokens agains username and password.You can read it here Laravel's 5.3 passport and api routes or ping me for any questions. Please vote it if the solution helps you.