# tymondesigns/jwt-auth

🔐 JSON Web Token Authentication for Laravel & Lumen

Repository: https://github.com/tymondesigns/jwt-auth
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jwt-auth
Homepage: https://jwt-auth.com
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: jwt, laravel, authentication, php
Last push: 2026-03-06T10:37:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 70, release rhythm 41, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4381, "days_push": 180, "days_rel": 180, "gap_med": 185.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11495, forks 1532 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:48.360440+00:00)

## What it is
A PHP library providing JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication for Laravel and Lumen applications. It handles token issuance, refresh, and validation as a drop-in authentication layer for stateless APIs.

## Use cases
- add JWT authentication to a Laravel API
- issue and refresh access tokens in Lumen
- secure stateless REST endpoints with bearer tokens
- replace session-based auth with token auth in Laravel
- implement login endpoints that return JWTs

## When to choose
- you build Laravel or Lumen apps needing stateless token-based authentication
- you want a mature, widely used JWT package for the PHP/Laravel ecosystem

## When to avoid
- your project is not Laravel or Lumen
- you need session-based or OAuth2/OpenID Connect authentication instead of JWTs

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: auth, middleware
- domain: web-development, backend, security, apis
- platform: php
- tags: jwt, laravel, lumen, token-authentication, api-authentication, web-server

## Member repositories
- tymondesigns/jwt-auth (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:48.360440+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:15:33.190085+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tymondesigns/jwt-auth (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:48.360440+00:00, sha 405e60c287ed)
  - homepage: https://jwt-auth.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:14:22.722366+00:00, sha 6bb4a9a4113f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.