Laravel Auth Session not working

The following route is defined by default. I am not using it tough. I don't even know, what it does. It was just there out of the box.

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () {
    //
});

Sessions only exist within web middleware so you need to make sure all your routes are in a route group that specifies 'web' as middleware

^ how do I do that? copy/paste all the routes inside the above group's function? or is there any other way?

I thought that this was in the documentation I may have mis-read the documentation.
Edit: Re-read docs, it is in the docs: The Default Routes File

The default routes.php file is loaded by the RouteServiceProvider and is automatically included in the web middleware group, which provides access to session state and CSRF protection. Most of the routes for your application will be defined within this file.
Maybe the last word file should be changed to group.

@Prez: Still didn't fix my problem though. Now, a laravel session cookie is being set(wasn't being set previously). However, if I use middleware authentication to protect my dashboard route, the route keeps redirecting back to login page. Never goes to Dashboard.

Any thoughts?

'middleware' => 'auth'

@jlrdw

6 days ago, taylor made a change to the default routes.php to put default routes inside web middleware

but then 5 days ago, he backed it all out (in Master) and applied web in the RouteServiceProvider so that it is always applied. https://github.com/laravel/laravel/commit/5c30c98db96459b4cc878d085490e4677b0b67ed

It seems perhaps the docs are ahead of the release.

@panther12 how/where are you using that middleware?

@Snapey:

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () {
    
    Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

Route::get('dashboard',  ['middleware' => 'auth' , function () {
        
    return view('dashboard');
}]);

Its a bit hard to follow, I would probably;

//public routes
Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () {
    
    Route::get('/', function () {
        return view('welcome');
});

//logged-in routes
Route::group(['middleware' => ['web','auth']], function () {
    Route::get('dashboard', function () {
        return view('dashboard');
    });
});

I find this easier once I have a lot of routes.