Route and Auth helpers are not available in service providers

[jameswagoner]

When trying to use route() in any service provider, (ie: AppServiceProvider, RouteServiceProvider, or even a custom provider) you receive a route not found error. auth() or Auth:: when logged in will return null.

Seems that these are not resolved till after the app is booted. One solution is using $this->app->booted() with a callback to build the navigation but that seems silly to me. Luckily my application is leveraging Inertia for it's frontend so my solution has been to build my navigation in App\Http\Middleware\HandleInteriaRequests middleware.

This issue is not the packages fault; however, the readme should remove the recommendation of using route and auth helper methods within a service provider.

[fefo-p]

Even if you use it inside $this-app->booted(), either Auth::class and auth() helper are still not available.

namespace App\Providers;

    use Illuminate\Support\Facades\View;
    use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

    class NavigationMenuServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
    {
        /** Register services ...*/
        public function register(): void {}

        /** Bootstrap any application services ...*/
        public function boot(): void
        {
            $this->app->booted( function() {
                $nav = app( \Spatie\Navigation\Navigation::class )
                    ->add( 'Home', route( 'welcome' ) );

                $permisos = [
                    'administrar usuarios',
                    'administrar roles',
                    'administrar permisos',
                ];

                if ( auth()->user()?->hasAnyPermission( $permisos ) ) {
                    $nav->add( 'Admin Panel', route( 'adminpanel.dashboard' ), function( \Spatie\Navigation\Section $section ) use ( $permisos ) {
                        $section->add( 'Dashboard', route( 'adminpanel.dashboard' ), null, [ 'active' => request()->routeIs( 'adminpanel.dashboard' ) ] );

                        if ( auth()->user()?->hasPermissionTo( $permisos[ 0 ] ) ) {
                            $section->add( 'Users', route( 'adminpanel.users' ), null, [ 'active' => request()->routeIs( 'adminpanel.users' ) ] );
                        }
                        if ( auth()->user()?->hasPermissionTo( $permisos[ 1 ] ) ) {
                            $section->add( 'Roles', route( 'adminpanel.roles' ), null, [ 'active' => request()->routeIs( 'adminpanel.roles' ) ] );
                        }
                        if ( auth()->user()?->hasPermissionTo( $permisos[ 2 ] ) ) {
                            $section->add( 'Permisos', route( 'adminpanel.permissions' ), null, [ 'active' => request()->routeIs( 'adminpanel.permissions' ) ] );
                        }

                        $section->add( 'About', route( 'adminpanel.about' ), null, [ 'active' => request()->routeIs( 'adminpanel.about' ) ] );
                    } );
                }

                $nav->addIf( auth()->user()?->hasRole( 'administrador' ), '', '', function( \Spatie\Navigation\Navigation $navigation ) {
                    $navigation->add( 'Admin', route( 'admin.dashboard' ) );
                } );

                $nav->add( 'About', route( 'adminpanel.about' ) );

                View::composer( '*', function( $view ) use ( $nav ) {
                    $navbar_menu = $nav;
                    $view->with( 'navbar_menu', $navbar_menu );
                } );
            } );
        }
    }

[booni3]

Best to put this in middleware if you need access to auth(). You cannot get the authorized user in a service provider due to the order in which the laravel flows.