multiple route file instead of one main route file in laravel 5

Question

I am a novice in web developing with Laravel 5. I installed asGgardCMS and After seeing asgardCms codes, I found that there is nothing codes in app/Http/route.php file and r

Answer 1

1. create 2 route files routes.web.php and routes.api.php.

2. edit the RouteServiceProvider.php file to look like the example below:

---

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Support\Providers\RouteServiceProvider as ServiceProvider;
use Illuminate\Routing\Router;

class RouteServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{

    /**
     * This namespace is applied to the controller routes in your routes file.
     *
     * In addition, it is set as the URL generator's root namespace.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $webNamespace = 'App\Http\Controllers\Web';

    protected $apiNamespace = 'App\Http\Controllers\Api';

    /**
     * Define your route model bindings, pattern filters, etc.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Routing\Router $router
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot(Router $router)
    {
        //

        parent::boot($router);
    }

    /**
     * Define the routes for the application.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Routing\Router $router
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function map(Router $router)
    {

        /*
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Web Router 
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        */

        $router->group(['namespace' => $this->webNamespace], function ($router) {
            require app_path('Http/routes.web.php');
        });

        /*
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Api Router 
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        */

        $router->group(['namespace' => $this->apiNamespace], function ($router) {
            require app_path('Http/routes.api.php');
        });

    }
}

Note: you can add as many route files as you want...

Answer 2

laravel ^6

explained in comments

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Support\Providers\RouteServiceProvider as ServiceProvider;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

class RouteServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * This namespace is applied to your controller routes.
     *
     * In addition, it is set as the URL generator's root namespace.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $namespace = 'App\Http\Controllers';

    /**
     * This namespace is applied to your Custom controller routes.
     *
     * In addition, it is set as the URL generator's root namespace.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $custom_namespace = 'App\Http\Controllers\Custom';

    /**
     * The path to the "home" route for your application.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    public const HOME = '/home';

    /**
     * Define your route model bindings, pattern filters, etc.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        //

        parent::boot();
    }

    /**
     * Define the routes for the application.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function map()
    {
        $this->mapApiRoutes();

        $this->mapWebRoutes();

    // map new custom routes
        $this->mapCustomRoutes();
    }

    /**
     * Define the "web" routes for the application.
     *
     * These routes all receive session state, CSRF protection, etc.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function mapWebRoutes()
    {
        Route::middleware('web')
            ->namespace($this->namespace)
            ->group(base_path('routes/web.php'));
    }

    /**
     * Define the "api" routes for the application.
     *
     * These routes are typically stateless.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function mapApiRoutes()
    {
        Route::prefix('api')
            ->middleware('api')
            ->namespace($this->namespace)
            ->group(base_path('routes/api.php'));
    }

   /**
     * Define the "custom" routes for the application.
     *
     * These routes are typically stateless.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function mapCustomRoutes()
    {
           Route::middleware('web')
            ->namespace($this->custom_namespace)  //or change its custom_namespace to namespace if you don't need change diractory of your controllers  
            ->group(base_path('routes/custom.php')); // change custom.php to your custom routers file name
    }
}

Answer 3

You can create as many route files as you need anywhere and then just require them in the main route file smth like:

Route::get('/', function () {
    return 'Hello World';
});

Route::post('foo/bar', function () {
    return 'Hello World';
});

require_once "../../myModule1/routes.php";
require_once "../../myModule2/routes.php"
require_once "some_other_folder/routes.php"

where you will define routes in the same way as in main