Customize Your API Versioning Route File In Laravel
In Laravel framework, the api route file is separated to a single file. It’s clear to write the api route.
If we want add the version to the api route, it would be like behind:
Umm, it seems good. But if we have to add the v3 api route to the route file, we will find out that the route file is too large to manage.
To solve the situation, we would separate the versioning api file to a single file. Now, let we take a look how the Laravel separate the route file between web and api.
App\Http\Kernel.php
App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider.php
In the light of above, we should declare api v1 & v2 middleware group in Kernel.php file first, then we add mapApiVersionOneRoutes and mapApiVersionTwoRoutes to define the versioning api routes. Finally, Using the both functions in map function.
App\Http\Kernel.php
App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider.php
Congratulations! We have the pretty clear versioning api routes file now!
routes/api/v1.php
routes/api/v2.php
