Disabling the calling of the two routes - laravel

Question

For my project, I need to have dynamic routes, because {slug} in URL can point to multiple resources.
/shoes - poinst to category
/black-slippers - points to product
Beside the wildcard route, I have also a few (50) static routes (all defined before wildcard route in routes/web.php)
But now, when is called static route, the wildcard route is performed also, e.g.:
Route::get('/profile', [\App\Http\Controllers\Frontend\UserProfileController::class, 'show'])->name('profile.show');
Route::get('{address}', [\App\Http\Controllers\Core\WebaddressController::class, 'resolveAddress'])->where('address', '.*');
In the browser is displayed Profile page (correctly), but in SQL Queries I see, that the query which is called in WebaddressController#resolveAddress is performed also.
If I comment wildcard Route, the query disappears.
What can I do to not perform wildcard route? Thanks
Please do not suggest changing the route style, I cant, this is the requested form.

Answer 1

You can exclude some keywords from the wildcard route with regex in the where statement:
Route::get(
'{address}',
[\App\Http\Controllers\Core\WebaddressController::class, 'resolveAddress']
)
->where('address', '^(?!profile|other-static-route)$');
The list of keywords doesn't have to be hardcoded. You could create a list yourself, or parse keywords from the routes you defined, like this:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;
$keywords = collect(Route::getRoutes())
->map(function ($route) {
return Str::afterLast($route->uri(), '/');
})
->filter(function ($keyword) {
return !Str::endsWith($keyword, '}');
})
->implode('|');
Add them to the where statement like this:
->where('address', '^(?!' . $keywords . ')$');

Answer 2

I am not sure is that a best practice, but you can make a custom middleware for:
Route::get('{address}', [\App\Http\Controllers\Core\WebaddressController::class, 'resolveAddress'])->where('address', '.*')
->middleware('is_slug_route');
And in your handle method of freshly created middleware you can check is provided url an actual slug.
public function handle($request, Closure $next) {
$possibleSlug = $request->getPathInfo();
if (Address::where('slug',$possibleSlug)->exists()) {
return $next($request);
}
}
Something like that