Using a slash in the beginning of the role makes any different?

Question

Assume this route please:

Route::post('/role/make', 'roleController@make_role')->name('make_role');

As you see, there is a / in the beginning of route path. The interesting part is when I remove that /, still it works as expected.

So is there any different between route above and this?

Route::post('role/make', 'roleController@make_role')->name('make_role');

Answer 1

You can probably run php artisan route:list to confirm that it makes absolutely no difference in the resulting route in the routes lookup table, but if in doubt this is the source code that adds a route in 5.3. At some point the router calls prefix method on the Router which does:

return trim(
        trim($this->getLastGroupPrefix(), '/')
        .'/'
        .trim($uri, '/'), 
 '/') ?: '/';

That is to say it will trim both the URI and prefix to remove the / and then trim the result and do the same.

I don't think this has changed in other versions.