Laravel Routes

Laravel Routes

In Laravel, routes serve as a crucial component for defining the entry points of your web application. They determine how HTTP requests should be handled and which controllers or closures should respond to them. Laravel’s routing system is powerful, allowing developers to create clean and expressive URLs, organize code effectively, and implement various middleware for additional functionalities.

Laravel provides you with a web.php routes file, I wanted to try and keep the code as clean as possible, so I created a custom motorbike.php routes file and at the bottom of the web.php I included require __DIR__.'/motorbike.php'; code. In the motorbike.php file in included the following code

Route::get('/listings', [MotorbikeController::class, 'index']);
Route::get('/motorbikes/{slug}', [MotorbikeController::class, 'show']);

Route::middleware('auth')->group(function () {
    Route::get('/motorbike/create', [MotorbikeController::class, 'create']);
    Route::post('/motorbike/create', [MotorbikeController::class, 'store'])->name('motorbike.store');
    Route::get('/motorbike/edit/{slug}', [MotorbikeController::class, 'edit'])->name('motorbike.edit');
    Route::put('/motorbike/edit/{slug}', [MotorbikeController::class, 'update'])->name('motorbike.update');
    Route::delete('/motorbike/{motorbike}', [MotorbikeController::class, 'destroy'])->name('motorbike.destroy');
});

Code Block 1: Custom Motorbike Routes file

The /listings and /motorbike/{slug} will be accessible by everyone visiting the website. However the routes handling the CRUD operations for the motorbike are inside the Route::middleware to ensure the user is authenticated before performing any actions.