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sven/super-basic-auth
=====================

A lightweight package to add basic authentication to your Laravel app.

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Super Basic Auth
================

[](#super-basic-auth)

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This is a super lightweight package to add the most basic form of authentication to your Laravel app. All you need is a webserver and a text editor!

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

The installation instructions for this package can be found below.

### Downloading

[](#downloading)

Via [composer](http://getcomposer.org):

```
$ composer require sven/super-basic-auth
```

Or add the package to your dependencies in `composer.json` and run `composer update` on the command line to download it:

```
{
    "require": {
        "sven/super-basic-auth": "^2.3"
    }
}
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

To use this package, first add the following code to your `config/auth.php` file:

```
return [
    // ...

    'basic' => [
        'user' => env('AUTH_USERNAME'),
        'password' => env('AUTH_PASSWORD'),
    ],
];
```

Be sure to add `AUTH_USERNAME` and `AUTH_PASSWORD` to your `.env` file. You can call these entries whatever you want.

Finally, apply the middleware to any route you want protected by those credentials:

```
Route::group('admin', function () {
    // Your password protected routes.
})->middleware(\Sven\SuperBasicAuth\SuperBasicAuth::class);
```

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

All contributions (pull requests, issues and feature requests) are welcome. Make sure to read through the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) first, though. See the [contributors page](../../graphs/contributors) for all contributors.

License
-------

[](#license)

`sven/super-basic-auth` is licensed under the MIT License (MIT). Please see the [license file](LICENSE.md) for more information.

###  Health Score

50

—

FairBetter than 96% of packages

Maintenance59

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity30

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity80

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 52.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~279 days

Recently: every ~505 days

Total

12

Last Release

61d ago

Major Versions

v1.1.0 → v2.0.02018-11-12

PHP version history (4 changes)1.0.0PHP >=7.0

v2.0.0PHP ^7.1.3

v2.4.0PHP ^7.4 || ^8.0

v2.6.0PHP ^8.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6682e025b83b7a93b4d43c5c9b0b2245d790d72352758c47b81ba14858f45a8a?d=identicon)[svenluijten](/maintainers/svenluijten)

---

Top Contributors

[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (55 commits)")[![svenluijten](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11269635?v=4)](https://github.com/svenluijten "svenluijten (50 commits)")

---

Tags

authenticationbasic-authhttp-authlaravellaravel-authenticationlaravel-packagehttplaravelauthAuthenticationpassworduserbasic

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