Beginning Laravel: A beginner's guide to application development with Laravel 5.3

© Sanjib Sinha 2017

Sanjib Sinha, Beginning Laravel, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2538-7_4

4. Routing, a Static Method

Sanjib Sinha¹ 

(1)Howrah, West Bengal, India

Routing is the concept of setting up a new URI like http://localhost:8000/hello. It will take you to a destination web page. Laravel makes it extremely simple. It’s a static method that accepts two things: a URI and an anonymous function or Closure.

In the 'app/Http/routes.php' it’s been defined primarily. Start your favorite text editor and open the file. What you see?

You see some code like this:

Route::get('/', function () {      return view('welcome');});

Here 'Route' is a class that has a static method ‘get’ that returns a ‘view’ method which presents a web page. When a user visits the home page ...