Laravel middleware

Create middleware

php artisan make:middleware EnsureTokenIsValid

Middleware

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

class EnsureTokenIsValid
{
    /**
     * Handle an incoming request.
     *
     * @param  \Closure(\Illuminate\Http\Request): (\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response)  $next
     */
    public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next): Response
    {
        Log::info("EnsureTokenIsValid middleware called");  

        return $next($request);
    }
}

boostrap/app.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Foundation\Application;
use App\Http\Middleware\EnsureTokenIsValid;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Exceptions;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Middleware;

return Application::configure(basePath: dirname(__DIR__))
    ->withRouting(
        web: __DIR__.'/../routes/web.php',
        commands: __DIR__.'/../routes/console.php',
        health: '/up',
    )
    ->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
        $middleware->append(EnsureTokenIsValid::class);
    })
    ->withExceptions(function (Exceptions $exceptions) {
        //
    })->create();

Assign to route

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\IndexController;
use App\Http\Middleware\EnsureTokenIsValid;

Route::resource('/', IndexController::class)->middleware(EnsureTokenIsValid::class);