Laravel Telescope custom authorization

By default, Laravel Telescope allows you to visit the /telescope route if:

environment is local
passes the viewTelescope Gate check

By tracing how Telescope does it Authorization, I've found:

It declares middlewares in its config file: Link
Middleware used does checks via simple callback: Link
The callback is stored via variable: Link
The callback can be changed and is initialized initially as we know: Link

I wanted to do simple basic auth for my use-case which I did by doing the following:

    public function boot(): void
    {
        Telescope::auth(function ($request) {
            if (
                $request->getUser() !== config('app.telescope.user') ||
                $request->getPassword() !== config('app.telescope.password')
            ) {
                abort(401, '', [
                    'WWW-Authenticate' => 'Basic realm="App"'
                ]);
            }

            return true;
        });
    }

"But why?"

I'm lazy. This is fewer steps than:

publish the config
create a middleware
replace the middleware in the config

Ironically, I spent an effort writing this.

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Laravel Telescope custom authorization