0076-laravel-routes-best-practices

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you prevent messy Laravel route files by keeping routing declarations separate from business logic, validation, and database operations.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Routes as declarations: Define HTTP verbs and controller targets without embedding application behavior in route definitions.
• Move logic to controllers and requests: Use controllers for orchestration and FormRequest classes for validation and authorization.
• Organize and scale routing: Apply route groups, naming conventions, route model binding, and resource controllers to stay maintainable as the app grows.
• Use cases: Refactoring an existing codebase with growing routes, standardizing an API/web routing structure, and improving testability and production safety (e.g., route caching).

Quick Start

Ask the assistant to review a set of Laravel routes and rewrite them so they only map requests to controllers while moving validation and business logic into FormRequest and service/controller layers.