Google Authentication using Laravel

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Nowadays social media is very popular and most favourite customer experience to use social media as their authentication in many websites. The moment you allow users to login using their social media profile, you can skip the validating process of their email because the social media provider already verified them. Hence, It gives a better user experience as users don’t need to create and remember their login credentials for your website. It also saves your time from building a verification flow.

In this article, we will discuss step by step on how to integrate Google Login in Laravel using Laravel Socialite. Laravel Socialite package handles flow for social login without hassle — pretty simple.

Without further ado, let’s get started.

Create Migration File

For fresh Laravel project, if you are not migrating yet, you can edit the users migration file. To integrate social login in the application, we need to add 2 more columns which is social_provider_name and social_provider_id to the user migration file.

social_provider_name indicate — the name of the social media

social_provider_id indicate — the unique id for user social media account

Your migrations will look like this.

Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->id();
    $table->string('name');
    $table->string('email')->unique()->index();
    $table->timestamp('email_verified_at')->nullable();
    $table->string('social_provider_name')->nullable();
    $table->string('social_provider_id')->nullable();
    $table->string('password')->nullable();
    $table->rememberToken();
    $table->foreignId('current_team_id')->nullable();
    $table->string('profile_photo_path', 2048)->nullable();
    $table->timestamps();
});

For existing project, you may create a migration file to alter the users table. Your migrations will look like this

Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->string('social_provider_name')->nullable();
    $table->string('social_provider_id')->nullable();
});

Installation

Now install the Laravel socialite package for google login. You may run the…