How to check if a user is logged in when using laravel sanctum?

Question

Laravel

The problem is that when using the standard Auth::check() construct, false is always returned. As I understand it, this is due to the fact that sanctum reads the token only when middleware is hung on the route. But I need the user to be not authorized, depending on this, I perform different actions

Answer 1

As it turned out, I just poorly configured the application. The fact is that in config/auth.php it is necessary to set the default authorization method to api, and the verification driver to sanctum

'defaults' => [
        'guard' => 'api',
        'passwords' => 'users',
    ],

'guards' => [
        'web' => [
            'driver' => 'session',
            'provider' => 'users',
        ],

        'api' => [
            'driver' => 'sanctum',
            'provider' => 'users',
            'hash' => true,
        ],
    ],