Laravel 8: Routing Change

 

In a fresh laravel 8 install, I have this in my web.php file:

    Route::get('/', 'HomeController@index');

 

and this in the index method of the HomeController.php

 

     /**

     * Display a listing of the resource.

     *

     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response

     */

    public function index()

    {

        return view('welcome');

    }

 

 

error page:--

 

The way to define your routes in laravel 8 or above is

 

    use App\Http\Controllers\HomeController;

    // Using PHP callable syntax...

    Route::get('/', [HomeController::class, 'index']);

OR

 

    // Using string syntax...

    Route::get('/', 'App\Http\Controllers\HomeController@index');

 

 If you want to stick to the old way, then you need to add a namespace property 

in the RouteServiceProvider.php (This property was present in previous versions)

 and activate in the routes method.

 

    /**

     * This namespace is applied to your controller routes.

     *

     * In addition, it is set as the URL generator's root namespace.

     *

     * @var string

     */

    protected $namespace = 'App\Http\Controllers';

    // Edit boot method  

    /**

     * Define your route model bindings, pattern filters, etc.

     *

     * @return void

     */

    public function boot()

    {

        $this->configureRateLimiting();

        $this->routes(function () {

            Route::middleware('web')

                ->namespace($this->namespace)

                ->group(base_path('routes/web.php'));

            Route::prefix('api')

                ->middleware('api')

                ->namespace($this->namespace)

                ->group(base_path('routes/api.php'));

    });

 

 in laravel 8 you can use the new syntax to define your routes or stick to the old way.