Laravel: Get base url

Question

Simple question, but the answer seems quite hard to come by. In Codeigniter, I could load the url helper and then simply do

echo base_url();

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Answer 1

By the way, if your route has a name like:

Route::match(['get', 'post'], 'specialWay/edit', 'SpecialwayController@edit')->name('admin.spway.edit');

You can use the route() function like this:

Other useful functions:

$uri = $request->path();
$url = $request->url();
$url = $request->fullUrl();
asset()
app_path();
// ...

https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.4/src/Illuminate/Foundation/helpers.php