The first route

- [Instructor] Routes in Laravel are essentially … the central part of our application. … The route in Laravel is how the application … knows what to do for any URL. … A Laravel route, in essence, says … for a URL matching this pattern, perform this work. … Sometimes that means calling another class. … Sometimes it's calling a specific line of code … right there in our routes file. … So what does this look like in reality? … Let's try this by building out a new route. … Open up the project files to the routes directory. … Inside of the routes directory, … you will see that there's a couple of different files: … API, channels, consult, and web. … The API describes routes that are behind … our API middleware section. … Let's build one out. … We'll open the api.php file, … and we'll add a new route on line 20. … We'll add the route colon colon git, … and inside of single quotes, forward slash test, … and then we'll add a closure function here, … function, parentheses, curly braces, and return …