Laravel - Session store not set on request

You'll need to use the web middleware if you need session state, CSRF protection, and more.

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () {
    // your routes here
});

In my case (using Laravel 5.3) adding only the following 2 middleware allowed me to access session data in my API routes:

• \App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class
• \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class

Whole declaration ($middlewareGroups in Kernel.php):

'api' => [
            \App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
            \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
            'throttle:60,1',
            'bindings',
        ],

If adding your routes inside the web middleware doesn't work for any reason then try adding this to $middleware into Kernel.php

protected $middleware = [
        //...
        \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
        \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
];