Enable Postman requests in Laravel (exception for CSRF Middleware)

VerifyCsrfToken.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Encryption\Encrypter;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Foundation\Application;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken as Middleware;

class VerifyCsrfToken extends Middleware
{
    /**
     * Indicates whether the XSRF-TOKEN cookie should be set on the response.
     *
     * @var bool
     */
    protected $addHttpCookie = true;

    /**
     * The URIs that should be excluded from CSRF verification.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $except = [
        //
    ];

    public function __construct(Application $app, Encrypter $encrypter)
    {
        parent::__construct($app, $encrypter);

        // enable Postman requests on local
        if (app()->environment('local') && strpos(request()->header('User-Agent'), 'PostmanRuntime') === 0) {
            $this->except = ['*'];
        }
    }
}