Concept of Route Group in Laravel 9 Tutorial

If we are building large project in web, then surely we have several routes. Also we have several modules inside that application. Inside this article, we will see that How we manage routes as route group in laravel 9.

This article is very interesting to learn. This will be step by step guide for the concept of Route group tutorial. Routes group may contains middleware protected routes, prefix etc. We will see all these concept here in detailed way.

In simple terms, Route group is a collection of routes. Route groups allow to share route attributes, such as middleware, prefix, across a large number of routes without needing to define those attributes on each individual route.

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Let’s get started.

Laravel Installation

Open terminal and run this command to create a laravel project.

composer create-project laravel/laravel myblog

It will create a project folder with name myblog inside your local system.

To start the development server of laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

Route Group (Syntax)

In simple terms, Route group is a collection of routes. Route groups allow to share route attributes, such as middleware, prefix, across a large number of routes without needing to define those attributes on each individual route.

There is a very basic syntax in laravel to define Route group in laravel 9.

Route::group( [ ] , callback);

Inside first array we can pass prefix, middleware etc.

Route Group with Route Prefix

Let’s say we have an application in which we have modules as Admin, Customer.

Example

Routes of Admin module as

# Route 1
/admin/create-user

# Route 2
/admin/list-users

# Route 3
/admin/edit-user

Routes of Customer module as

# Route 1
/customer/list-purchase

# Route 2
/customer/list-blogs

# Route 3
/customer/create-blog

Application Routes without group concept

//...
// Admin Routes
Route::get("admin/create-user", [AdminController::class, "createUser"]);
Route::get("admin/list-users", [AdminController::class, "listUsers"]);
Route::get("admin/edit-user", [AdminController::class, "editUser"]);

// Customer Routes
Route::get("customer/list-purchase", [CustomerController::class, "listPurchase"]);
Route::get("customer/list-blogs", [CustomerController::class, "listBlogs"]);
Route::get("customer/create-blog", [CustomerController::class, "createBlog"]);

Each time in route, we are defining admin/ and customer/ with route. This is not a good practise.

Application Routes with route group concept

// Admin Routes
Route::prefix("admin")->group(function(){
   Route::get("create-user", [AdminController::class, "createUser"]);
   Route::get("list-users", [AdminController::class, "listUsers"]);
   Route::get("edit-user", [AdminController::class, "editUser"]);
});

// Customer Routes
Route::prefix("customer")->group(function(){
   Route::get("list-purchase", [CustomerController::class, "listPurchase"]); 
   Route::get("list-blogs", [CustomerController::class, "listBlogs"]);
   Route::get("create-blog", [CustomerController::class, "createBlog"]);
});

Route Group with Middleware

Middleware is the level of security. Applying middleware into group of routes means we are protecting route groups.

// Middleware with single route
Route::get("sample-test", [AdminController::class, "createUser"])->middleware("first");

// Middleware with route group
Route::middleware(['first', 'second'])->group(function () {

   Route::get("create-user", [AdminController::class, "createUser"]);
   Route::get("list-users", [AdminController::class, "listUsers"]);
   Route::get("edit-user", [AdminController::class, "editUser"]);

});

Here, applying first and second middleware into group of routes.

We hope this article helped you to learn about Concept of Route Group in Laravel 9 Tutorial in a very detailed way.

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