The lastest version of Laravel doesn’t have a routes.php file.
This ‘routes.php’ file was located in \app\Http in the older versions.
In the newer version, Laravel 5.3, we have a folder named ‘routes’, where we can find the following files:
- api.php
- console.php
- web.php
For this new version, the routes for your controllers, you can put inside web.php file
See the documentation about routing here
https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/routing#basic-routing
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