Laravel allows you to choose from different types of options that will help you do your work faster and in a more efficient manner. Here, I would like to talk about the “Route Groups” that allows you to define multiple routes under a single group. For example, suppose you are working on a profile module and you want to write 7-8 routes for a profile. To do so, you can easily create a group and add all the routes under a single group. Route group is defined as Route::group. You can also pass some parameters to restrict group like middleware, and also set specific URL keyword as a prefix in which the routes will work. In addition to it, you can also define a route by using “as” to define the name of the group or route.

Read the following explanation for better understanding of Prefix and Middleware:-

Prefix – if you want the routes are only under the specific keyword mention in the Route::group.

Middleware – Middleware is used to verify the user of your application is authenticated.

The code that you need to write in web.php would look something like this:

Route::group(['prefix' => 'profile', 'as' => 'profile.','middleware' => 'auth'], function()
{
Route::get('/',['as' => 'all', 'uses' => 'ProfileController@index']);
Route::get('edit',['as' => 'edit', 'uses' => 'ProfileController@edit']);
}

You can use above route in your web.php like this:

You can also use nested groups if you define multiple middlewares for different routes. So, you can just add a group by prefix and under that, you can add another group in which you define middlewares that you want to use.

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