Htykuut

I'm trying to do something very simple.

Route::get('/', function () {

    return Route::view('/welcome', 'welcome');

});

I just want to it to load the welcome view and change the URI to /welcome. However, as you can see it keeps throwing the error Object of class IlluminateRoutingRoute could not be converted to string.

I haven't touched Laravel in a minute and am kind of doing a refresher and tried to set up a simple site. I may be missing something totally obvious but I have no idea what it could be.

Any help would be much appreciated.

I think your mean like

Route::redirect('/', '/welcome', 301);

Route::view('/welcome', 'welcome');

or

//one view like resources/views/welcome.blade.php

Route::get('/', function () {

    return view('welcome');

});

But in fact we usually use .htaccess redirect request, because you must load all requires before do anything in framework.

You can either use

 Route::view('/','welcome');

Or use

 Route::get('/', function () {

  return view('welcome');

});

I guess you are mixing two different syntax.

[http://www.expertphp.in/article/laravel-5-5-new-feature-route-view-and-route-redirect-method-with-example]