2 years ago

I find routing in Laravel wonderful: it's easy to understand, structured yet highly configurable and flexible, and overall a pretty solid (pun intended) set of features. My only gripe with it is when it comes to defining and generating/using your actual routes.

And to top it all off - just imagine how many hard coded strings you'll have to change, once you eventually refactor your route definitions.

Neat, this checks all the boxes: No more hard coded strings, so our code is DRY and free of typos Our code is easy to modify without refactoring a bunch of files We get autocompletion from the IDE The code definition for a class with methods has much less cognitive complexity.

By now, I'm sure we're on the same page, why using hard coded strings for your route names isn't desirable.