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Welcome back.

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In this section, we'll answer questions
like, how is the Laravel homepage view

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displayed in the browser, and
where exactly is the welcome view located?

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So far, we've used routes and
closures to return basic math operations,

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string based responses, and
the default welcome page.

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Imagine, we want to return to a specific
page with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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This is where the views come in.

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In the next few videos, we'll explore
how views work, how to create them, and

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what we can do with them.

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Let's take a look at how this
happens in closer detail.

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You already know how to
display a view within a route,

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inside of the web.php file like this.

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This default route returned the Laravel
welcome view located in the base path

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within the resources/views directory.

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This time,

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we want to create a function named index
inside of the AppController.php file.

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In order to do this,

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let's return the welcome view inside
of the index function like this.

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Instead of the index function, we want
to return the welcome view like this

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Now that our AppController.php file is
set to display the default welcome view,

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save your changes and
head over to the routes directory.

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Next, open the web.php file and change the
forward slash route destination to this.

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Notice that we're not using a closure,
also known as an anonymous function.

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Because our forward slash route
returns the index function

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inside of the app controller instead
of the default welcome view.

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If this seems confusing, you can test this
behavior by navigating to local host 8000.

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Remember, as we covered earlier, you can
just adjust the port numbers if needed.

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If you see the welcome screen, great job.

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We're done creating our first
controller for now, but

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we still need to build our views,
so join me in the next section.

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See you there.

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Returning views from controllers is a
crucial process in the Laravel ecosystem.

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It allows us to use routes to access
controllers to perform some logic and

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then return an HTML page with the
information retrieved from the database.

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If this sounds like MVC,
then you're starting to get it.

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If not, keep going and it will make
more sense as you keep learning.

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In the next section,
we're gonna take a look

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at the differences between controllers and
resource controllers.

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See you there.