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Laravel Tip – Break up your routes

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Do you have a lot of routes? Are they getting hard to manage?

Here is a Laravel quick tip to help you clean them up. Use the Request::is() method to break them out into separate files. Here is an example:

if (Request::is('admin/*'))
{
    require __DIR__.'/admin_routes.php';
}

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