Auto Login For Development In Laravel

Skipp adding credentials to test UI all the time for development

Add a User seeder with your development user

database/seeders/UserSeeder.php

User::factory()->create([
    'name' => 'your name',
    'email' => 'your@email.com'
]);

You can add alternatively a password, but it is not necessary, the default user factory adds a password for all users as password

Add a route

routes/web.php

Route::get('/dev-login', function() {
    abort_unless(app()->environment('local') ,403);
    auth()->login(User::first());
    return redirect()->to('/');
})->name('dev-login');

Add a link on your login view

Using Blade Template

@if(config('app.env') === 'local')
    <a href="{{ route('dev-login') }}">Dev Login</a>
@endif

Go further

Auto login using AuthServiceProvider

You can also set a default authenticated user with this code in AuthServiceProvider

public function boot()
{
    if($this->app->environment('local')) {
    
        $user = User::query()->firstOrCreate([
            'name' => 'John Doe',
            'email' => 'john@doe.com'
        ]);
        
        $this->app['auth']->setUser($user);
    }
}

Working With Jetstream

The dashboard and other pages use some middlewares with current team_id, so you must need to create a user with a personal team first and pass the user as the authenticated user

On a UserSeeder or DatabaseSeeder class

User::factory()->withPersonalTeam()->create();

Then migrate & seed the database:

php artisan migrate:fresh --seed

Then modify a little the AuthServiceProvider

public function boot()
{
    if($this->app->environment('local')) {
        $this->app['auth']->setUser(User::first());
    }
}

Thanks for reading!