Are You Authorized To Do That?

There’s another “auth“ that Laravel makes incredibly easy out of the box: authorization. But just how is authentication and authorization different? Let’s take a look at Gates and Policies, when to use one over the other, and the basics of how you can check if a user is authorized to do something anywhere in your application. **clarification: while you can use $this authorize() in a Livewire class, you will need to use Gate authorize() in a controller in Laravel 11 *note: there’s a LOT of awesome helper functions and ways to check gates and policies that we didn’t talk about. The docs are a great place to dive deeper. Authorization Docs: