Creating named routes

From the beginning, even in a small project, I highly suggest naming routes. I will cover a few examples of how and why here.

Getting ready

A base install of Laravel is great. I will use some routes and views from above but you can easily follow along.

How to do it…

Follow the listed steps for creating named routes:

1. To begin with, let's look at some routes I have:

   > php artisan route:list
   

   You will see something like this if you followed along so far, else you will just see the default Laravel route.

   

2. Notice the name section; that is what we are aiming for here.

3. Note the admin section admin.memberships and admin.users in my app/routes.php file:

   

4. See the ->name() method at the end of the Route facade, it is the cause of this magic.

5. Also notice the dot notation naming to help organize a bit more. This is optional but I like it for grouping like routes.

6. Here is where it comes in handy though, open up the test and swap out the path for the route method:

   

7. See the following route...