Laravel SPA (Vue) Authentication with cookie or token?

Question

the more I read about Laravel Spa (Vue) authentication, the more I ask myself about the "best way" to authenticate with Sanctum. Official Laravel documentation says:

For this feature, Sanctum does not use tokens of any kind. Instead, Sanctum uses Laravel's built-in cookie based session authentication services. This approach to authentication provides the benefits of CSRF protection, session authentication, as well as protects against leakage of the authentication credentials via XSS.

But a lot of videos on YouTube or other tutorials on the internet all using (bearer) tokens which sounds contradictory to me. I mean, just using a single token for authentication seems to be a bit unsafe to me. Also, some of those people defined "login" and "register" routes directly into Laravels route file, instead of using Vue router.

I'm using Laravel 8, VueJS 3 and Vuex 4.

So, what do you think: Am I on the right way by using Vue routes and sanctum authentication using cookies or not? And why?

Thank you, I appreciate that.