Routing

To navigate through your Laravel application, you define routes in the routes/web.php file. Routes can either point directly to Views
or pass through Controllers to handle logic before returning a response.

Basic Routing

Laravel routes are defined using the Route facade and can respond to different methods:


                Route::get('/', function () { 

                return view('home'); 

                });

View Routing

If you only need to return a view without additional logic, you can use the Route::view method:


                Route::view('/about', 'about');

Additionally, you can pass data to the view:


                Route::view('/about', 'about', ['employees' => Employee::all()]);

Controller Routing

Instead of defining logic inside routes, you can delegate it to controllers:


                Route::get('/dashboard', [DashboardController::class, 'index']);

HTTP methods in Laravel

Method	Description
`Route::get()`	Fetches a resource
`Route::post()`	Creates a new resource
`Route::put()`	Updates a resource
`Route::delete()`	Deletes a resource

Examples:


                Route::post('/user', [UserController::class, 'store']); 
 

                Route::put('/user/{id}', [UserController::class, 'update']); 
 

                Route::delete('/user/{id}', [UserController::class, 'destroy']);

Named Routes

You can give routes unique names by using name():


                Route::get('/profile', [ProfileController::class, 'show'])->name('profile.show');

In the Blade, the route can be accessed via route('profile.show') inside the href attribute of an <a> tag. Dont forget to add curly
brackets in the href attribute before accessing the route!

Resource Routes

To generate CRUD routes for a controller, use Route::resource :


                Route::resource('products', ProductController::class);

This automatically creates routes for index, create, store, show, edit, update and destroy actions.
If you dont intend on using all of them you can add limits:


                Route::resource('products', ProductController::class)->only(['index', 'show']); 
 

                Route::resource('products', ProductController::class)->except(['create', 'edit']);

Grouped Routes & Middleware Authentication

Grouping routes helps apply shared attributes like middleware:


                Route::middleware('auth')->group(function () { 

                * define routes here 

                });

API Routing

API routes are defined in routes/api.php. These routes are stateless and automatically prefixed with /api:


                Route::get('/products', [ProductController::class, 'getProducts']);


                public function getProducts(){ 

                return Product::all(); 

                }

The API can be accessed with the link /api/products. Your output should resemble the following:


                [ 

                { 

                "name": "Product 1", 

                "description": "Description of the first product.", 

                "price": 10.99 

                }, 

                { 

                "name": "Product 2", 

                "description": "Description of the second product.", 

                "price": 15.99 

                } 

                ]