Protecting all admin/ routes with auth in Laravel

Question

I am brand new to laravel and am setting up admin panel authorization on my first application. The way I have my files setup currently setup is:

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Answer 1

For future readers, a very clean way to handle this is using Laravel's Route Groups:

Route groups allow you to share route attributes, such as middleware or namespaces, across a large number of routes without needing to define those attributes on each individual route.

Route::group(['middleware' => 'auth'], function () {
    Route::get('/', function ()    {
        // Uses Auth Middleware
    });

    Route::get('user/profile', function () {
        // Uses Auth Middleware
    });
});

They can be used not only for authentication, but also Namespaces, Sub-Domains, and more.