Scotch.io has posted the second part of their series (here's part one) continuing their look at using tokens for authentication in an AngularJs+Laravel application. They pick up where they left off in the previous part and focus on adding more of the systems around the token.

In the tutorial on Scotch.io we created a new app called jot-bot to look at how to implement token-based authentication in AngularJS and Laravel by using jwt-auth and Satellizer together. On the Laravel side, jwt-auth let’s us generate JSON web tokens when the user inputs their credentials. [...] There were a few things for a complete authentication solution that we didn’t get to in the last tutorial, including: Setting the logged-in user’s data (such as name and email address) and their authentication status, a way to redirect the user to the login page if they become logged out and how to log the user out and the implications of token-based authentication on logout.

He starts by updating the AuthenticateController to handle getting the authenticated user based on the token information. He also adds the matching route and show the kind of data it should return. He then switches to the Angular side and creates the controller to hook into the backend and get the current user information. The tutorial then shows how to relay user information back to the view and what it might look like. He then goes through a similar process for adding the logout handling including redirecting the user when logged out. Finally, he shows how to initialize the user on the frontend when the application loads, pulling the data from localstorage and checking for a valid existing session.