In this post, we are going to explain how to create new routes in Laravel, what they are and how to use the controllers and views.

If we access to the directory where we created our new Laravel project, we will see that there are many directories. Each directory has many files with its functionality.

• app: where are all the classes of our app. (controllers, models, etc.)
• bootstrap: contains what is necessary to bootstrap the framework
• config: contains the configuration files
• database: contains the migrations and seeds
• public: contains the index.php that is the file where all the requests go
• resources: contains the views and no-compiled assets (JS, CSS, etc)
• routes: contains your app routes
• storage: contains cache and logs
• tests: contains tests
• vendor: contains the dependencies

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Laravel is a PHP framework created by Taylor Otwell. Currently, it is one of the most famous PHP frameworks that exist and also is one of the most used because of its simplicity, but this doesn’t mean that isn’t a complete framework, just the opposite. It has a lot of features that make more and more people support the project.

The community behind it is huge, they contribute to the core and with many packages (in some days I will explain about this) that help us to save time in common tasks in almost every project.

Some features it has:

• Own template engine, Blade
• Own ORM, Eloquent
• Routes
• Packages
• MVC
• And many more

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