In laravel 11 and 12, making new routes files and applying middleware and domain to them difficult or impossible?

[bhojkamal]

Laravel Version

11.43 and 12.1

PHP Version

8.3

Database Driver & Version

PGSQL

Description

In Laravel 11 and 12, making routes custom files and applying middleware, add domain to route files is difficult; may be it is possible for some or few developers, However, I am also senior developer working on Laravel for 4 years and php for 7 years. I am trying to add middleware to just api or just api.php for few day, but I could not apply the custom middleware to routes files and also applying the domain to particular route file. It was quite easy in laravel 8, 9 or 10. Are you guys making laravel framework harder for such small adjustment or adding such bit thing, I could not understand.

<?php

use App\Http\Middleware\IdentifyTenant;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Application;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Exceptions;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Middleware;

return Application::configure(basePath: dirname(__DIR__))
  ->withRouting(
    web: __DIR__ . '/../routes/web.php',
    api: __DIR__ . '/../routes/api.php',
    commands: __DIR__ . '/../routes/console.php',
    health: '/up',
    // then: function () {
    //   Route::middleware(['api', 'identify.tenant'])
    //     ->prefix('api')
    //     ->name('api.')
    //     ->group(base_path('routes/api.php'));
    // }
  )
  ->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
    $middleware->trustProxies(at: '*');
    $middleware->append(IdentifyTenant::class);
    // $middleware->prependToGroup('api', IdentifyTenant::class);

    $middleware->api(prepend:[
      IdentifyTenant::class,
    ]);

    $middleware->alias([
      'identify.tenant' => IdentifyTenant::class,
    ]);

    $middleware->web(append: [
      \App\Http\Middleware\HandleInertiaRequests::class,
      \Illuminate\Http\Middleware\AddLinkHeadersForPreloadedAssets::class,
    ]);

    //
  })
  ->withExceptions(function (Exceptions $exceptions) {
    //
  })->create();

I tried to apply ItendifyTenant class to api.php files. but could not succeed.
If I put this $middleware->append(IdentifyTenant::class); it applied to all. If I $middleware->prependToGroup('api', IdentifyTenant::class); it does not work. In laravel, 8, 9, 10. It was quite easy.

Steps To Reproduce

Please make as simple or easy as like in Laravel 8, 9 or 10.
The following lines also look weird. in main working file.

web: __DIR__ . '/../routes/web.php',
api: __DIR__ . '/../routes/api.php',
commands: __DIR__ . '/../routes/console.php',

[macropay-solutions]

Maybe this can help you
#55182 (reply in thread)

[rodrigopedra]

@bhojkamal you can have full control on route registration by passing a \Closure to the withRouting method:

<?php

use Illuminate\Foundation\Application;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Exceptions;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Middleware;
use Illuminate\Routing\Router;

return Application::configure(basePath: \dirname(__DIR__))
    ->withRouting(function (Application $app, Router $router) {
        $router->middleware('api')
            ->prefix('/api')
            ->as('api.')
            ->group($app->basePath('routes/api.php'));

        $router->middleware('web')
            ->group($app->basePath('routes/web.php'));
    })
    // in case you want to keep routes/console.php
    // app/Console/Commands is already registered nonetheless
    ->withCommands([\dirname(__DIR__) . '/routes/console.php']) 
    ->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
        // ... your custom Middleware config
    })
    ->withExceptions(function (Exceptions $exceptions) {
        // ...
    })
    ->create();

See the last part of this section on the docs:

https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/routing#routing-customization

[rodrigopedra]

Related discussion:

#55182

"Reproduction" repo:

https://github.com/rodrigopedra/discussions-55182

Note: The code in reproduction repo works using standard Laravel 11/12 code.

The repo actually serves as a base, so OP can further explain the issue, as I could not reproduce it.