Laravel 5.x Cookbook

Creating named routes

From the beginning, even in a small project, I highly suggest naming routes. I will cover a few examples of how and why here.

Getting ready

A base install of Laravel is great. I will use some routes and views from above but you can easily follow along.

How to do it…

Follow the listed steps for creating named routes:

1. To begin with, let's look at some routes I have:

   > php artisan route:list
   

   You will see something like this if you followed along so far, else you will just see the default Laravel route.

   
2. Notice the name section; that is what we are aiming for here.
3. Note the admin section admin.memberships and admin.users in my app/routes.php ...