# Routing

By

Charl Cronje

To get started, let's create our first route. In Laravel, the simplest route is a route to a Closure. Pop open the app/routes.php file and add the following route to the bottom of the file:

Route::get('users', function()
{
    return 'Users!';
});

Now, if you hit the /users route in your web browser, you should see Users! displayed as the response. Great! You've just created your first route.

Routes can also be attached to controller classes. For example:

    Route::get('users', 'UserController@getIndex');

This route informs the framework that requests to the /users route should call the getIndex method on the UserController class. For more information on controller routing, check out the controller documentation