Authorization and Authentication

graph LR
  Authentication --> Authorization

Authentication: Verifies who you are. It checks credentials like usernames, passwords, or biometrics to confirm identity.
Authorization: Determines what you can do. It grants or restricts access to resources based on permissions.

Breeze

Breeze is the Auth starter kit for Laravel. It offers views and components for a variety of frontend stacks. Since Breeze offers some frontend views written in HTML/CSS/JavaScript it requires NodeJS and NPM to be installed. NodeJS is the runtime for JavaScript and NPM is the package manager for and JavaScript packages.

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Installing NodeJS / NPM in Windows
```
winget install -e --id OpenJS.NodeJS
```
Installing NodeJS / NPM in Linux:
```
sudo apt install nodejs npm
```

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Installing NPM dependencies:
```
npm install
```
Building frontend files:
```
npm run build
```

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Breeze was removed as a starter kit in the newest versions of Laravel Installer and can only be installed manually

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Adding Breeze to an existing Laravel application

composer require laravel/breeze --dev # install blade as a dependency 
php artisan breeze:install # install blade views and routes
npm install # install blade client side dependencies using npm

Breeze automatically creates migrations for users tables in database

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Breeze will create new routes at /login , /register and /dashboard

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You should always use composer run dev to run your project for development

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Using Git and GitHub

Installing Git

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In Windows
```
winget install -e --id Git.Git
```
In Linux
```
sudo apt install git
```

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Pushing Project Repository

Create a new empty repository on GitHub and copy the link to the repository

git config --global user.name [YOUR-NAME]
git config --global user.email [YOUR-EMAIL]

Initialize a new git repository in project directory
```
git init
```
Add all files in project directory
```
git add . 
```