I'd like to know about class Route used in web.php

Question

So, in Laravel, there is a web.php file in which class Route is used, and its static functions get and matched are called.

The problem is, that class is a kind of a mistery to me, I can't find it's source in my laravel project, niether can I find anything about it on Internet. If You google it, you'll find Illuminate\Routing\Route but I think that's not the class I'm looking for, because that one doesn't have static functions get and match. I've also tried to look for it my projects directory, and I've found I think four classes with such names, but none of them has these functions which are used in my web.php.

Here is my web.php:

<?php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

Auth::routes();

Route::get('/', 'BlogController@all')->name('post.all');

Route::match(['get', 'post'], '/article/create', 'BlogController@create')->name('post.create')
     ->middleware('auth');

Route::get('/article/{id}', 'BlogController@single')->name('post.single');

Route::match(['get', 'post'], '/article/{id}/delete', 'BlogController@delete')->name('post.delete')
     ->middleware('auth', 'author');

Route::match(['get', 'post'], '/article/{id}/edit', 'BlogController@edit')->name('post.edit')
     ->middleware('auth', 'author');

Route::get('/author/{id}', 'BlogController@author')->name('post.author');

Route::get('/category/{id}', 'BlogController@category')->name('post.category');

Route::match(['get', 'post'], '/user/create', 'UserController@create')->name('user.create')
     ->middleware('auth');

Route::get('/home', 'HomeController@index');

Answer 1

You're almost there;

You'll find it under the Illuminate\Routing\Router class.

The reason you won't see static functions in here, is because Laravel uses something called "Facades" which provide a static way to access an instantiated class. It essentially wraps the Route class and calls those functions for you.

You can see all facades (including the Route one) registered to Laravel by looking at config/app.php under the aliases key.