Category "Routing" tricks

Will validate a route pattern against the current route.

Perform pattern based CSRF filter on all post, put, patch, and delete requests. Just add this code snippet at the top of routes.php

For example, if you are using a caching server which listens on HTTPS, which retrieves your content from another (local server) which isn't using HTTPS, your links might be generated as http://mysite.com instead of the desired https://mysite.com. With this trick you can circumvent this.

Uses "thepixeldeveloper/sitemap": "dev-master" in composer.json to create a better organised sitemap structure via multiple "files" (routes).

In the official docs : http://laravel.com/docs/responses#special-responses, need to do `Response::json(...)` to create json response. Actually, if the returned value is an array or instance of arrayableinterface or jsonableinterface such as eloquent model, you could just return it, it'll be a json, magically.

A Controller-based solution to add the CSRF filter to all POST requests.

Laravel 4 CSRF on all POST requests

Do not trust the client. Safe way to get CSRF token for use in Angular JS. Keeps it as a constant.

There are a few tips already for active states on navigation, however none are based on Route names. I prefer to use Route names for all routes, so here is a modified version of the "active states" trick for route names.