Nwanze Franklin has posted a tutorial to the Dev.to site sharing a deep dive into middlewares in Laravel. Middleware is a powerful tool that can allow you to work with the request and response objects in your application in a more reproducible and contained manner.

What is a Laravel middleware? It is a feature in Laravel which provides a mechanism for filtering HTTP requests entering your application. This allows you to hook into Laravel request processing work flow to perform some kind of logic that decides how your application works.

What would you use middleware for? Protecting your routes, setting headers on HTTP responses, logging requests to your application, sanitizing incoming parameters, enable site-wide maintenance mode [and] manipulating responses generated by your application.

The tutorial then starts in on the code, showing how to create a custom middleware and the code that's generated by the artisan command. It covers the differences between global and route middleware, how to register a middleware and assigning it to a route. It ends with a look at using parameters in middleware and how to access them from the controller.