Getting to Know Routing and Controllers in Laravel

Every page starts with a route: a rule that connects a URL to code. In this part we write our first route and move its logic into a controller.

Your first route

Open routes/web.php and add:

Route::get('/hello', fn () => 'Hello from Laravel');

Using a controller

Once the logic grows, move it into a controller so the routes file stays short.

php artisan make:controller ProductController

Route::get('/products', [ProductController::class, 'index']);

URL parameters

The part of a URL in curly braces is passed to the controller. If it is type-hinted as a model, Laravel looks it up in the database for you.