Build API Authentication with Laravel Passport

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When you are building a web application with Laravel, authenticating your user is a crucial step because we don’t want an unauthenticated user to do something malicious in our app or do something we don’t expect to. You should always protect your routes with the authentication middleware, or if you want to take a step further, you can protect it with the authorization as well.