How to replicate the behavior of Leaf v3's before method on Router

[kczx3]

I had used the Leaf\Router->before method previously in v3 where I passed in the methods, pattern, and handler. This was convenient because I wanted a middleware to execute on every route except for a few. How should we replicate this in v4?

[kczx3]

@mychidarko any chance you'd be able to give me your feedback on this question?

[mychidarko]

Hey @kczx3 for this particular use-case, something like this might work for you

app()->use(function () {
  $excludedPaths = [
    '/',
    '/excluded-route'
  ];

  $path = request()->getPathInfo();

  if (in_array($path, $excludedPaths))  {
    return;
  }

...
});

This way the middleware will run before all your routes, but you can still skip the ones it's not needed on

[kczx3]

Thanks, that is what I did but it just seems a messier from a consumer perspective.