[Laravel] Removing API Prefix for API Subdomains

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If you are utilizing Laravel as a backend platform serving API routes via a subdomain https://api.example.com/, you may find that the default routing configuration for the api route is not needed.

Edit /app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php and locate the prefix('api') line and comment it out or remove it altogether, in my case i don't need the web route group so i commented that part out.

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Cache\RateLimiting\Limit;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Support\Providers\RouteServiceProvider as ServiceProvider;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\RateLimiter;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

class RouteServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * The path to your application's "home" route.
     *
     * Typically, users are redirected here after authentication.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    public const HOME = '/home';

    /**
     * Define your route model bindings, pattern filters, and other route configuration.
     */
    public function boot(): void
    {
        RateLimiter::for('api', function (Request $request) {
            return Limit::perMinute(60)->by($request->user()?->id ?: $request->ip());
        });

        $this->routes(function () {
            Route::middleware('api')
                // ->prefix('api')
                ->group(base_path('routes/api.php'));

            // Route::middleware('web')
            //     ->group(base_path('routes/web.php'));
        });
    }
}

Result

$ From
https://api.example.com/api/{route}

$ To 
https://api.example.com/{route}