In a recent post to his site ** shows you how to create a system that uses a handy package to create JWT authentication handling for a Lumen-based application. Lumen is the microframework sibling to the Laravel framework.

Recently I have been tinkering with Angular-4 to get a taste of it and I decided to create a quick project to get my hands dirty. I decided to create a blog with authentication etc. My main focus was on the frontend so I decided to quickly bootstrap an application in Lumen because of its simplicity and almost zero-configuration development. For the authentication, I decided to go with JWT and this post is going to be a quick write-up on how I integrated that and how anyone can integrate JWT authentication in their APIs.

He then walks you through the setup of a new Lumen project and populates the database with some sample (faked) user information from a seeder. Next he helps you get the firebase/php-jwt library installed via Composer and creates the matching controller and middleware to wire it into the application. In his example the user is authenticated via the standard username/password form and, when successful, generates a JWT token that's then passed along with other requests for validation by the middleware.