Laravel 8 Resource Routing Example

In this tutorial, we will discuss Laravel 8 Resource Routing Example. In this post, we will show the Laravel 8 resource routing example. Laravel resource routing assigns the typical CRUD routes to a controller with a single line of code. You have to create a resource route on Laravel they provide default insert, update, view, and delete routes. and you have to create a resource controller that will provide a method for inserting, updating, viewing, and deleting.

Now, I will generate a controller at app/Http/Controllers/StoreController.php. So, we will see how to create resource routes and how they work.

We have to understand why we create a resource route instead of different routes. we always declare different routes for our crud application like as below:

#routes/web.php

use App\Http\Controllers\StoreController;

Route::get('store', '[StoreController::class, 'index']');
Route::get('store/create', '[StoreController::class, 'create']');
Route::post('store', '[StoreController::class, 'store']');
Route::get('store/{blog}/edit', '[StoreController::class, 'edit']');
Route::put('store/{blog}', '[StoreController::class, 'update']');
Route::get('store/{blog}', '[StoreController::class, 'show']');
Route::delete('store/{blog}', '[StoreController::class, 'destroy']');

We have to create six routes above for our crud application module. But we can simply create those six routes into one resource by using bellow resource route:

Resource Route:

#routes/web.php

use App\Http\Controllers\StoreController;

Route::resource('store', StoreController::class);

Now, you can run below command to create route lists:

php artisan route:list --name=store

Now we have output as like bellow route:

+--------+--------------+-------------------+---------------+------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Domain | Method       | URI               | Name          | Action                                         | Middleware   |
+--------+--------------+-------------------+---------------+------------------------------------------------+--------------+
|        | GET|HEAD     | api/user          |               | Closure                                        | api,auth:api |
|        | GET|HEAD     | store             | store.index   | App\Http\Controllers\StoreController@index     | web          |
|        | POST         | store             | store.store   | App\Http\Controllers\StoreController@store     | web          |
|        | GET|HEAD     | store/create      | store.create  | App\Http\Controllers\StoreController@create    | web          |
|        | GET|HEAD     | store/{blog}      | store.show    | App\Http\Controllers\StoreController@show      | web          |
|        | PUT|PATCH    | store/{blog}      | store.update  | App\Http\Controllers\StoreController@update    | web          |
|        | DELETE       | store/{blog}      | store.destroy | App\Http\Controllers\StoreController@destroy   | web          |
|        | GET|HEAD     | store/{blog}/edit | store.edit    | App\Http\Controllers\StoreController@edit      | web          |
+--------+--------------+-------------------+---------------+------------------------------------------------+--------------+

I will make:controller Artisan command, it will quickly create such a controller:

Also read: laravel 8 crud operation tutorial for beginners

Resource Controller Command:

php artisan make:controller StoreController --resource

Now open StoreController with the following resource method:

<?php

#app/Http/Controllers/StoreController.php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class StoreController extends Controller
{
    /**
    * Display a listing of the resource.
    *
    * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
    */
    public function index()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
    * Show the form for creating a new resource.
    *
    * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
    */
    public function create()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
    * Store a newly created resource in storage.
    *
    * @param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
    * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
    */
    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        //
    }

    /**
    * Display the specified resource.
    *
    * @param int $id
    * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
    */
    public function show($id)
    {
        //
    }

    /**
    * Show the form for editing the specified resource.
    *
    * @param int $id
    * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
    */
    public function edit($id)
    {
        //
    }

    /**
    * Update the specified resource in storage.
    *
    * @param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
    * @param int $id
    * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
    */
    public function update(Request $request, $id)
    {
        //
    }

    /**
    * Remove the specified resource from storage.
    *
    * @param int $id
    * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
    */

    public function destroy($id)
    {
        //
    }
}