Making AngularJs Satellizer, JWT and Laravel Socialite to play along

I'm trying to register/login users in my web app by using Satellizer Facebook auth.

One of Satellizer's Facebook authenticate cycle requires making a post request to backend(Laravel PHP) /auth/facebook by passing a code obtain from facebook.

The following actions are performed at backend

1. Retrieval of user's facebook profile, in this case to Laravel.
2. Create users if they don't exists
3. Return JWT code back to client (Satellizer)

The problem is, it seems post requests are never made to /auth/facebook however Satellizers still logs users in.

Kindly see code below:

In Angular config:

 $authProvider.facebook({
    url: '/auth/facebook',
    clientId: '93488373912012901',
    responseType: 'token',
    authorizationEndpoint: 'https://www.facebook.com/v2.5/dialog/oauth',
    redirectUri: 'http://site.dev/auth/facebook/callback', //registered in FB App
    requiredUrlParams: ['display', 'scope'],
    scope: ['email'],
    scopeDelimiter: ',',
    display: 'popup',
    oauthType: '2.0',
    popupOptions: { width: 580, height: 400 }
  });

Somewhere in Angular controller (ControllerAs)

 auth.authenticate = function()
 {
        $auth.authenticate('facebook').then(function(response)
        {
           dd(response); //
        }).catch(function(response) {
            dd(response);
        });
  };

In Laravel

 $router->post('/auth/facebook', 'Auth\SocialController@authenticate');

In Laravel SocialController

public function authenticate($provider='facebook')
{
    \Log::info('here');
    if ($this->request->has('redirectUri')) {
        config()->set("services.{$provider}.redirect", $this->request->get('redirectUri'));
    }

    $profile = Socialite::driver($provider)->stateless()->user();

    \Log::info( $profile);

    //JWT goes here
}

As you can see in the authenticate method, I have \Log::info('here'); this should simply send a log to storage/laravel.log but nothing is being logged and the logging system work perfectly.

Please what am I missing?

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