Just use the web middleware by default!

Yeah, that won't work. Go to your app/providers/RouteServiceProvider.php file and update it however you need:

protected function mapWebRoutes(Router $router)
{
    $router->group([
        'namespace' => $this->namespace, 'middleware' => 'web',
    ], function ($router) {
        require app_path('Http/routes.php');
    });
}

Two options, maybe:

1. Just remove the 'middleware' => 'web' block entirely and continue like you used to.
2. Add a whole new $router->group() section that loads, say, Http/routes-api.php.

@JeffreyWay So now to have middleware on groups we just have those to options? it will not work like before?

@ricardosoares

Just remove the 'middleware' => 'web' block entirely and continue like you used to.

P.s: I actually posted this question too quickly. People have been doing this already but nice to have out of the box. i prefer the second option

 protected function mapWebRoutes(Router $router)
     {
         $router->group([
             'namespace' => $this->namespace, 'middleware' => 'web',
         ], function ($router) {
             require app_path('Http/routes.php');
         });
 
         $router->group([
             'namespace' => $this->namespace, 'middleware' => 'api',
         ], function ($router) {
             require app_path('Http/routes-api.php');
         });

         $router->group([
             'namespace' => $this->namespace,
         ], function ($router) {
             require app_path('Http/exposed-routes.php');
         });
     }

Add a whole new $router->group() section that loads, say, Http/routes-api.php.

That should've been the default!

so, maybe add something like this to the RouteServiceProvider (untested, will try it later this week and maybe make a PR)

    /**
     * Define the "api" routes for the application.
     *
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Routing\Router  $router
     * @return void
     */
    protected function mapApiRoutes(Router $router)
    {
        $router->group([
            'namespace' => $this->namespace, 'middleware' => 'api',
        ], function ($router) {
            require app_path('Http/routes-api.php');
        });
    }

and change the map function to:

    public function map(Router $router)
    {
        $this->mapWebRoutes($router);
        $this->mapApiRoutes($router);
        //
    }

@Prullenbak used your way to create that, and it works. Just to let you know. A Pull Request would be great for it. I think it helps a lot of people.

It wasn't that hard, so I made a PR for it. Never made one before, so here's hoping I did it right :P

It isn't hard indeed, but maybe many people are overlooking it aswell. I didn't expect this to happen, after a clean install of Laravel. Previous week making a new project was fine.. It makes you head scratch in the beginning over the changes.

I prefer using this

/**
 * Define the routes for the application.
 *
 * @param  \Illuminate\Routing\Router  $router
 * @return void
 */
public function map(Router $router)
{
    $router->group(['namespace' => $this->namespace], function ($router) {
        foreach (glob(app_path('Http//Routes') . '/*.php') as $file) {
            $this->app->make('App\\Http\\Routes\\' . basename($file, '.php'))->map($router);
        }
    });
}

@bashy but that doesn't add the api middleware group.

@Prullenbak You can add whatever middleware you want :P just like in Jeffrey's reply.

Well that's awesome but little confusing at first. So what's happening here is we are adding new file with routes and assign global middleware to it's routes right?