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I have a couple controllers that don't use all the resource methods, for example the way I do my cruds I only use one vue file and the index, store, update, and destroy methods in the controller. What should I do with the other ones (create, edit, show) should I remove the entire method or just put a redirect in it in case someone gets curious with the routes?
What do you recommend?
Why keep them if they aren't being used. Delete them. Update your resource to specify only the methods available (Partial Resource Route)
You can use ->only([]) or ->except([]) which ever you feel fits better.
The docs on this are here https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/controllers#restful-partial-resource-routes
@msslgomez just delete the ones you don't need. if you don't need all the routes, don't use Route::resource() and just define the routes you need.
@braunson Thanks I'll use this method, time to refactor all my routes!
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