Remove the personal_access_tokens table on a fresh Laravel App

Since Laravel v8.6.0, Sanctum is now the default API authentication stack. However, initially most of my projects don't need an API, but because of the Sanctum package I end up with an extra personal_access_tokens table.

You can easily remove Sanctum by running composer remove, and commenting out or remove the api/user endpoint in your api route file.

composer remove laravel/sanctum

// routes/api.php

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

// Route::middleware('auth:sanctum')->get('/user', function (Request $request) {
//     return $request->user();
// });

You may also need to remove the `CreatePersonalAccessTokensTable` migration, and run the `migrate:fresh` command to drop all tables from the database and run migrate again.

rm database/migrations/2019_12_14_000001_create_personal_access_tokens_table.php
php artisan migrate:fresh