Laravel provides several excellent options for managing authentication in your applications. If you'd prefer a head start, you might reach for one of the available first-party packages that provide robust, modern scaffolding for your authentication layer, including Laravel Breeze, an initial starter, Laravel Jetstream, offering two-factor auth, API tokens and team management, or Laravel Fortify, a backend implementation.

In this series, we'll review how to use and customize these packages in order to fit the authentication needs of your application.