Forum Is the Middleware concept of Laravel 5.0 correct?

posted 10 years ago

Hi,

I'm graduated in Computer Science, and I've learnt that middlewares are "translators", and not "filters", as implemented in Laravel 5.0.

My question is: Why the Laravel's middleware looks like Java "Aspects", and why the "Middleware" title was adopted if it actually has none middleware concept in fact?

Based on: http://mattstauffer.co/blog/laravel-5.0-middleware-replacing-filters

Thanks a lot!

Last updated 2 years ago.

ricardovigatti

replied 9 years ago

I was thinking the same...

This article written by Matt is excellent. If you read well, he's explaining about the differences between filters and middlewares on his conclusion.

"Filters are a little easier a jump from our normal thinking about controller route requests. But middleware—the concept of the stack which passes along only a request, allowing it to be decorated piece by piece--is cleaner, simpler, and more flexible."