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I'm a full time Laravel dev and love Laravel, but it's default auth is one of my least favorite parts. I personally feel like it's abstracted to an extreme, and to the point where you have to take it or leave it wholesale.

On most apps I find myself writing my own register / login / password reset logic, and just using Auth::login($user); to get the user logged in and give them a session.

From that point onwards though, Laravel does a fantastic job and Passport is a god send.