Laravel8 - Registration and Login using Laravel UI

Here we are going to see how do we create laravel 8 login and authentication application. Assuming that you are already install xampp / lampp, composer and code editor on your system. if they are not installed  then install them first  and  start xampp/lampp  server on your system.

Install Laravel 8

Open the command  window or terminal window

composer create-project laravel/laravel:^8.0 laravel8-app

cd laravel8-app

Database Connection

Create the Mysql database and give the database credentials on .env file to  for interacting your apllication with database.

Install Laravel UI

Installl laravel UI  for login authentication

composer require laravel/ui

php artisan ui bootstrap --auth

php artisan migrate

Install  npm modules

Install node modules and dependencies and compiles css assets  using  the npm command

npm install

npm run dev

Resolve the mix error if any

if you face any mix related error  like  "'mix' is not recognized as an internal or external command....".  perform the following steps

npm install laravel-mix@latest --save-dev

change the scripts section on package.json with following

"scripts": {
        "dev": "npm run development",
        "development": "mix",
        "watch": "mix watch",
        "watch-poll": "mix watch -- --watch-options-poll=1000",
        "hot": "mix watch --hot",
        "prod": "npm run production",
        "production": "mix --production"
    },

Run the following commands on your application root directory's terminal or  command window.

npm run  dev

php artisan serve

Open the browser and  put "http://localhost:8080" on  address bar.  Now you can see the laravel landing page with  login and Register link.

Final result or output

Congratulation, Finally you have created a laravel 8 application with login and registration. Thus you can customize youe application with your wish.