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Handle routing

Handle routing

We are looking at a new Laravel application. Now it's time we look at the code, find out where this content is located and make some edits. This is Visual Studio Code within Codespaces, you can use an IDE of your choice if you're developing locally outside of Codespaces. This is your Laravel app code base. With these many files and folders, it's easy for a beginner to get overwhelmed at first. For the basic app that we are going to build in this course, we only need to access a few of these and we'll take it step by step. The very first thing we find out is where this content is being fetched from. In a core.php project, you need to have an index.php that is fetched when you type localhost or access the root URL. You can find that index.php within the public folder, right here, but you cannot immediately make sense of anything in this. Right? So where is the HTML content that is shown here, coming from? Laravel, just like any other frameworks, has routes, they are defined in a routes…

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