Laravel 5.3 set homepage as login screen

Question

How do I set the homepage (/) to the login screen in Laravel 5.3?

I have a routes file :

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

I have set up the basic auth scaffolding with the command php artisan make:auth and have set up my db tables too.

But I'm struggling to understand how to set the homepage to always go to the login screen if the user is not authenticated? Surely this is just me being stupid right?

Answer 1

I just needed to specify the middleware('auth') for my route:

 Route::get('/', function () {
        return view('home');
    })->middleware('auth');

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

This way if you're not logged in it will redirect to login automatically.