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title: 'You can supply default values for route parameters'
tweet_id: '1479467942039285762'
thread_slug: weekly-thread-2021-01
author_username: ryangjchandler
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created_at: 2022-01-07T15:00:19+00:00
slug: you-can-supply-default-values-for-route-parameters
---
🔥 Did you know that you can supply default values for route parameters in @laravelphp?

In the screenshot below, we use the current user's account as the default value for `{account}`. This means we don't have to provide it when generating the `users.index` route.