API on laravel 11

So I decided to use Laravel 11 for my new application (why not). And I'm a little confused with api requests.

I configurate my app (I have only api cases):

return Application::configure(basePath: dirname(__DIR__))
    ->withProviders([
        ...(require __DIR__ . '/providers.php'),
    ],
        false
    )
    ->withCommands([ __DIR__ . '/Command'])
    ->withRouting(
        api: __DIR__ . '/routes.api.php',
        apiPrefix: ''
    )
    ->withExceptions(function (Exceptions $exceptions): void {
        $exceptions->renderable(function (\Throwable $throwable): JsonResponse {
            return handleApiException($throwable);
        });
    })
    ->create();

but, but I feel that my application does not understand that it is an api.

I recieve this error: Route [login] not defined.

Do you remember there used to be a middleware Authenticate that was available in the skeleton? I used to do this:

class Authenticate extends Middleware
{
    protected function redirectTo(Request $request): ?string
    {
        if (str_starts_with($request->getUri(), config('app.api_url'))) {
            return null;
        }

        if ($request->expectsJson() === false) {
            return route('login');
        }

        return null;
    }
}

but now this middleware is hidden in the core.

So if my requests do not use special json headers, then the application does not understand that this is an api.

I can make some kind of workaround:

    $request->headers->add([
        'Accept' => '.../json',
    ]);

this will solve the problem, but something tells me that it wasn’t intended that way.