Laravel Change default routing behaviour in Laravel 5.2.31 + Adding api-routes with other middleware and keep default web middleware
Example
Since Laravel version 5.2.31 the web middleware is applied by default within the RouteServiceProvider (https://github.com/laravel/laravel/commit/5c30c98db96459b4cc878d085490e4677b0b67ed)
In app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php you will find the following functions which apply the middleware on every route within your app/Http/routes.php
public function map(Router $router)
{
$this->mapWebRoutes($router);
}
// ...
protected function mapWebRoutes(Router $router)
{
$router->group([
'namespace' => $this->namespace, 'middleware' => 'web',
], function ($router) {
require app_path('Http/routes.php');
});
}
As you can see the middleware web is applied. You could change this here. However, you can also easily add another entry to be able to put your api routes for example into another file (e.g. routes-api.php)
public function map(Router $router)
{
$this->mapWebRoutes($router);
$this->mapApiRoutes($router);
}
protected function mapWebRoutes(Router $router)
{
$router->group([
'namespace' => $this->namespace, 'middleware' => 'web',
], function ($router) {
require app_path('Http/routes.php');
});
}
protected function mapApiRoutes(Router $router)
{
$router->group([
'namespace' => $this->namespace, 'middleware' => 'api',
], function ($router) {
require app_path('Http/routes-api.php');
});
}
With this you can easily seperate you api routes from your application routes without the messy group wrapper within your routes.php
