Laravel before and after middleware with example

Today we are going to understand laravel before and after middleware with example. 

Let’s dive into it.

So, we know that laravel has middlewares which help us to filter or modify the https requests before they actually interact with the internal application features.

We are not going to discuss how we can generate the middlewares and register them to app\http\kernel.php. Then it will be available to use on routes, route groups or in the controllers. That is already given in the laravel documentation.

Before and after middleware example

Public function handle ($request, Closure $next)
{
    // perform some operation before the closure call
    $response = $next($request);
    // perform some operation after the closure call
    Return $response;
}

As we can see in the code above, it is that simple. 

Before middleware means to perform some operations before processing the request. For example, add new data to the request or may be convert comma separated string to array etc. And after middleware means to perform the operations after processing the request and before returning the response. Then we can also manipulate or add new data to the response .

That’s it, laravel before and after middleware with example code.

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