Testing Laravel Sanctum acting as results in bad method call - laravel

I'm trying to test an authenticated API route which only an authenticated user can post to a specific route.
Looking at the Laravel Sanctum docs, I can use the code below to create and authenticate a user:
Sanctum::actingAs(
factory(User::class)->create(),
['*']
);
When I try replicate this, I get an error running the test
BadMethodCallException: Call to undefined method App\User::withAccessToken()
My test code is as follows:
public function an_authenticated_user_can_add_a_client()
{
$user = Sanctum::actingAs(
factory(User::class)->create(),
['*']
);
dd($user);
// $this->post('/api/clients', $this->data());
}
api.php
Route::middleware('auth:sanctum')->group(function () {
//Clients
Route::get('/clients/{client}','ContactsController#show');
Route::post('/clients','ContactsController#store');
Route::patch('/clients/{client}','ContactsController#update');
Route::delete('/clients/{client}','ContactsController#destroy');
});
I don't have the method withAccessToken() in my User class and can't see where this method is coming from or specified anywhere.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Laravel Sanctum for SPA uses normal session authentication so the default actingAs method works fine. The actingAs method in Sanctum is meant to use for api tokens. Hope it helps.

Your User model is missing the HasApiTokens trait, that gives the function you are missing to the User model. Also described in the documentation, under the section Issuing API Tokens.
use Laravel\Sanctum\HasApiTokens;
class User {
use HasApiTokens;
}

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