Level 73
In Lumen if you open bootstrap/app.php that's where the $router is being passed to the web.php script. It is being resolved from the IoC container. In Laravel RouteServiceProvider is the one where the routes are loaded.
Jul 18, 2019
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Level 1
Route Facade vs $router variable
In Laravel we use the Route facade for declare a route. for example:
Route::get('/',function(){
return view('welcome');
});
in the other hand, In Lumen we use the $router instead of Route facade. for example:
$router->get('/',function(){
return $router->app->version();
});
my question is where this $router variable is declare or bind in lumen. can i use this in Laravel Project ?
Level 14
It looks like in Lumen, they make the $router variable publicly available here: https://github.com/laravel/lumen-framework/blob/0f450f8d6ee47bdef6c88a2492883c6e48a33a95/src/Application.php#L82
/**
* The Router instance.
*
* @var \Laravel\Lumen\Routing\Router
*/
public $router;
Although the Route facade seems to also be available in Lumen: https://github.com/laravel/lumen-framework/blob/0f450f8d6ee47bdef6c88a2492883c6e48a33a95/src/Application.php#L703
Whereas Laravel uses the Route facade, which references the same router as Lumen: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/facades#facade-class-reference. And I would guess that you can use the $router variable in your Laravel project, but you will have to declare the binding yourself as it is not made public by Laravel (that I am aware of anyway). Functionally it should work the same though, so it would just be a convention thing. And most Laravel developers, if anyone else is working on the project with you or will be in the future, are used to the Route facade.
Level 73
in Laravel it used to be the same when routes.php file was used to define your routes, now as they separated the routes in web.php and api.php for convenience the facade is used.
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