Apply Auth Middleware to All Laravel Routes - laravel

Question

What is the correct way to authenticate all routes except login and register when I apply auth middleware in all controllers? Is there a way to apply auth middleware in one place and exclude login, register routes?

Answer 1

You can group all your authenticated routes like following, laravel provides a default middleware for auth and guest users
Route::group(['middleware' => ['auth']], function () {
Route::get('home', 'HomeController#index');
Route::post('save-user', 'UserController#saveUser');
Route::put('edit-user', 'UserController#editUser');
});
The above route names are just made up, please follow a proper naming convention for your routes and controllers. Also read about middlewares over here and about routing over here

Answer 2

you can apply middlewares in the routes.php file, what you need to do is to put all your routes on a group, and add the middleware 'auth' ( except the Auth::routes() which are already configured), for example :
Route::middleware(['first', 'second'])->group(function () {
Route::get('/', function () {
// Uses first & second Middleware
});
Route::get('user/profile', function () {
// Uses first & second Middleware
});
});
more information can be found in the docs: https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/routing#route-group-middleware

Answer 3

You can add middleware to your whole web.php route file by adding the middleware to your routes mapping in RouteServiceProvider.
Go to app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php and in mapWebRoutes(), change middleware('web') to middleware(['web', 'auth']):
protected function mapWebRoutes()
{
Route::middleware(['web', 'auth'])
->namespace($this->namespace)
->group(base_path('routes/web.php'));
}
This is (not?) totally unrelated but here's an example of a clean way to handle a lot of route files instead of throwing all your routes into a single web.php file:
Create a new method mapAdminRoutes():
protected function mapAdminRoutes()
{
Route::middleware(['web', 'auth:admin'])
->namespace('App\Http\Controllers\Admin')
->name('admin.')
->group(base_path('routes/admin.php'));
}
Map it:
public function map()
{
$this->mapWebRoutes();
$this->mapAdminRoutes(); // <-- add this
...
}
Create an admin.php file in your routes folder, then create your routes for Admin:
<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
// This route's name will be 'admin.dashboard'
Route::get('dashboard', 'DashboardController#dashboard')->name('dashboard');
// This route's name will be 'admin.example'
Route::get('example', 'ExampleController#example')->name('example');
...
Now you can configure everything in 1 place, like prefix, name, middleware and namespace.
Check php artisan route:list to see the results :)