Building Scalable APIs with Laravel Sanctum
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Building Scalable APIs with Laravel Sanctum

Jan 17, 2026 1 min read
Sanctum provides a featherweight authentication system for SPAs (single page applications), mobile applications, and simple, token-based APIs. Sanctum allows each user of your application to generate multiple API tokens for their account. These tokens can be granted abilities / scopes which specify which actions the tokens are allowed to perform.

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