Route groups in Laravel - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Organizing Routes with Route Groups in Laravel

📖 Scenario: You are building a simple web application with Laravel. You want to organize your routes by grouping them under a common URL prefix and middleware for better structure and security.

🎯 Goal: Create a route group in Laravel that applies a URL prefix /admin and middleware auth to three routes: /dashboard, /users, and /settings.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a route group with prefix admin

Apply middleware auth to the route group

Define three GET routes inside the group: /dashboard, /users, and /settings

Each route should return a simple string response indicating the page name

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Route groups help keep Laravel routes organized and secure by applying common settings to many routes at once.

💼 Career

Understanding route groups is essential for Laravel developers to build scalable and maintainable web applications.

1

Set up the initial routes without grouping

Create three GET routes in routes/web.php for /admin/dashboard, /admin/users, and /admin/settings. Each route should return a string: "Dashboard Page", "Users Page", and "Settings Page" respectively.

Laravel

# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use Route::get() for each URL with a closure returning the page name string.

2

Create a route group with prefix and middleware

Create a route group using Route::prefix('admin')->middleware('auth')->group() and place the three routes inside this group. Remove the /admin prefix from individual routes inside the group.

Laravel

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

// Create a route group with prefix 'admin' and middleware 'auth'
// Your code here

Need a hint?

Use Route::prefix('admin')->middleware('auth')->group(function () { ... }); and put the routes inside the function.

3

Add a name prefix to the route group

Add a name prefix admin. to the route group by chaining ->name('admin.') to the group definition. This will prefix route names inside the group.

Laravel

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

// Add a name prefix 'admin.' to the route group
// Your code here

Need a hint?

Chain ->name('admin.') before ->group() to add the name prefix.

4

Name each route inside the group

Add route names to each route inside the group using ->name() with these exact names: dashboard, users, and settings.

Laravel

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::prefix('admin')->middleware('auth')->name('admin.')->group(function () {
    // Add route names here
    // Your code here
});

Need a hint?

Use ->name('dashboard'), ->name('users'), and ->name('settings') after each route definition.