Logout current device only with Laravel 6

Recently I discovered that the default logout functionality in Laravel actually logs the user out from all their devices. This is because upon logout it cycles their remember token, invalidating other logged in sessions. To me this is really strange behaviour and I think it ends up being a pretty poor user experience. Considering that Laravel also provides a logoutOtherDevices() method to keep them logged in on their current device but logout others, I felt there was a good argument for a logoutCurrentDevice() method. So much so that I opened a PR to add logoutCurrentDevice that shipped in Laravel 6.0.

Going about implementing this is relatively easy - you just override logout in the default LoginController provided by the framework. We're effectively running the same code under the hood but calling logoutCurrentDevice() instead of logout().

class LoginController extends LoginController
{
    use AuthenticatesUsers;

    /**
     * Log the user out of the application.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function logout(Request $request)
    {
        $this->guard()->logoutCurrentDevice();

        $request->session()->invalidate();

        return $this->loggedOut($request) ?: redirect('/');
    }
}

Using logoutCurrentDevice() is a simple way to improve the user experience for apps that a user might login to from multiple devices, and is generally the behaviour they would expect. It would be quite confusing (and frustrating) if logging out from a site on your phone suddenly meant you were logged out on your computer as well.