What Changes Have Been Made While Implementing Laravel Authentication

Implementation of Laravel authentication is very simple. All you need is to execute
php artisan make:auth, then it generates the authentication functions already.

However, I would like to know what changes have been made in order to modify it and to fit into my own code. There is a way to do so: git version control.

All I have to do is to commit everything before making authentication and show the difference after. It will show the changes have been made.

Let’s start a Laravel project called “Laravel_test”.

Start the test project

> laravel new laravel_test
      :
      :
> cd laravel_test

Start git control

  git init
  git add .
  git commit -m "Initial Commit"

Make Authentication

Now execute the make:auth command.

> php artisan make:auth
Authentication scaffolding generated successfully.

Show the files changed and added:

> git status
On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   routes/web.php

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

	app/Http/Controllers/HomeController.php
	resources/views/auth/
	resources/views/home.blade.php
	resources/views/layouts/

• File changed: routes/web.php

  Auth::routes();
  Route::get('/home', 'HomeController@index')->name('home');

• Files added:

1. app/Http/Controllers/HomeController.php

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class HomeController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Create a new controller instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('auth');
    }

    /**
     * Show the application dashboard.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Contracts\Support\Renderable
     */
    public function index()
    {
        return view('home');
    }
}

2. resources/views/auth/

   resources/views/auth/passwords/email.blade.php
   resources/views/auth/passwords/reset.blade.php
   resources/views/auth/login.blade.php
   resources/views/auth/register.blade.php
   resources/views/auth/verify.blade.php

3. resources/views/layouts/app.blade.php

4. resources/views/home.blade.php

Remove the Laravel authentication

The changes havn’t been commited yet at this stage. If we need to go back to the original status (before make:auth), just run the git command:

1. Revert changes to modified files.

> git reset --hard
HEAD is now at 096f938 Add README.txt

The routes/web.php has been changed to the original status.

2. Remove all untracked files and directories.
   (-f is force, -d is remove directories)

> git clean -fd 
Removing app/Http/Controllers/HomeController.php
Removing resources/views/auth/
Removing resources/views/home.blade.php
Removing resources/views/layouts/