Laravel Auth:attempt() will not persist login

Firstly, I have the same problem on Laravel 5.8.

I confirm that the solution of @nayeem-azad is the good one, at least in my case.
One difference, in **App\Http\kernel.php**, I do not moved this line :

\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class

from ***protected $middlewareGroups*** to ***protected $middleware*** but only copied it to ***protected $middleware***.

Hope it helps ;-)

You can pass `true` to Auth:attempt() for the `remember` parameter:

if ( Auth::attempt(array('email' => $email, 'password' => $password), true) ) {
return Auth::user();
} else {
return Response::make("Invalid login credentials, please try again.", 401);
}