Laravel - Making Routes in file other than web.php

Question

Making routes of various pages of a website in web.php makes it bulky and unstructured. So my question is is there any way to save it in separate files?

// Calling Registration function
Route::any('/admin-store','AdminUserController@store')->name('admin-reg'); 

// Redirecting to Registration page
Route::get('/admin-registration','AdminUserController@index')->name('admin-registration'); 

// Redirecting to login page
Route::get('/admin-login','AdminLoginController@index')->name('admin-login'); 

// Redirecting to Admin Profile Page
Route::get('/admin-profile','AdminProfileController@index')->name('admin-profile'); 

// Calling Login function
Route::post('admin-login-result','AdminLoginController@login')->name('admin-log'); 

// Calling Function to Update Profile
Route::post('admin-edit-profile','AdminEditController@updateProfile')
         ->name('admin-edit-profile'); 

// Redirecting to Profile Edit page
Route::get('/admin-edit-profile','AdminEditController@index')->name('admin-edit'); 

Answer 1

Short answer

Yes, you can store routes in different files.

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Expanded answer

1 - Create your new Route file

Create your new route file, for this example I'll name it users.php and store there the related routes:

• routes/users.php

  Route::get('/my-fancy-route', 'MyCoolController@anAwesomeFunction');
  // and the rest of your code.

2 - Add your route file to the RouteServiceProvider

Add here a new method, i'll call it mapUserRoutes:

• app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php

/**
 * Define the User routes of the application.
 *
 *
 * @return void
 */
protected function mapUserRoutes()
{
    Route::prefix('v1')  // if you need to specify a route prefix
        ->middleware('auth:api') // specify here your middlewares
        ->namespace($this->namespace) // leave it as is
        /** the name of your route goes here: */
        ->group(base_path('routes/users.php'));
}

3 - Add it to the map() method

In the same file(RouteServiceProvider.php), go to the top and add your new method inside the map() function:

/**
 * Define the routes for the application.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function map()
{

    // some other mapping actions

    $this->mapUserRoutes();
}

4 - Final steps

I'm not fully sure if this is neccesary but never hurts to do:

• Stop your server (if runing)

• do php artisan config:clear

• Start your server.