Laravel Routes Best Practices

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Enforces architectural separation by ensuring Laravel route files remain clean, declarative, and focused solely on mapping requests to controllers.

This skill provides Claude with the domain-specific knowledge required to implement and refactor Laravel routing according to industry best practices. It helps prevent 'fat route files' by guiding developers to move business logic, validation, and database operations into controllers, services, and form requests. By leveraging route groups, model binding, and resource controllers, the skill ensures that the application's entry points are organized, maintainable, and optimized for performance through route caching.

Key Features

01Enforces the use of Form Requests for validation instead of inline route logic
02Optimizes routing architecture for production-ready route caching compatibility
03Implements route groups, prefixes, and named routes for improved organization
04Refactors route closures into dedicated controller methods and service classes
05Promotes Route Model Binding for automatic and clean parameter resolution
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Use Cases

01Designing structured, versioned API routing systems using resource controllers
02Refactoring legacy Laravel applications where business logic is trapped in route closures
03Auditing existing route files for anti-patterns and performance bottlenecks