[5.3] Map API routes before Web routes #3929
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When developing SPAs, it makes sense to have a 'catchall' route and then handle the routing with javascript (like with
vue-router
). It would also make sense to have some API endpoints for the SPA to talk to.However, if you were to add a catchall to the
web.php
routes and then some API endpoints to theapi.php
routes, theapi.php
routes would be ignored as the catchall takes precedence, sinceweb.php
routes are mapped first.This PR proposes that we map API routes first, so that those routes take priority before a catchall / similar route is set by
web.php
.Here is the proposal in
internals
: laravel/ideas#187