I’m relatively new to using Laravel 5. Up until recently I managed a few applications that were Laravel 3 and 4.2, sadly we never had the time to migrate them. When I started a new project I chose Laravel 5 (5.5 was the latest ver s ion as of starting this article, but has been updated for 5.6) and one of the best features was the ability to use multiple auth guards. This is great for applications that have 2 sets of users (e.g. customers, staff) and so needed their own login pages etc. In this article we’re going to go over setting them up and what other things need to be considered. Install Laravel First thing we need to do is create a Laravel app (You can skip this part if you already have one). composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel auth_app Update .env file Now you should update your .env folder to fit your needs. i.e setting a database to use. For this article the database is probably the only thing you’ll need to change. I’ve also setup the domain to be ...