How to add Captcha to the Laravel 5.5 Registration Process

This will help you stop spam registrations on your site. A simple Captcha Registration process.

Terminal

composer require mews/captcha

App.php

'providers' => [Mews\Captcha\CaptchaServiceProvider::class,
  'aliases' => [
  'Captcha' => Mews\Captcha\Facades\Captcha::class,

App.Js

jQuery(".btn-refresh").click(function(){
      Jquery.ajax({
          type: 'GET',
          url: '/refresh_captcha',
          success: function(data) {
              Jquery(".captcha span").html(data.captcha);
          }
      })
  })

Register Controller

protected function validator(array $data)
      {
          return Validator::make($data, [
              'name' => 'required|string|max:255',
              'email' => 'required|string|email|max:255|unique:users',
              'password' => 'required|string|min:6|confirmed',
              'captcha' => 'required|captcha'
          ]);
      }

Web.php

Route::get('refresh_captcha', 'HomeController@refreshCaptcha')->name('refresh_captcha');

HomeController

public function refreshCaptcha()
      {
          return response()->json(['captcha' => captcha_img()]);
      }

Register Blade