Getting http://127.0.0.1:8000/route('welcome') instead of http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in laravel 9

I’ve come across a peculiar bug in a laravel project of mine,

In my web.php I have a named route ‘welcome’ :

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
})->name('welcome');

This route contain my index page in which there’s a navigation component.

Through an AppServiceProvider I’m passing data to the navigation component

The data im passing is a simple table containing this :

{
name : "home",

href : "route(‘welcome’)"

}

<nav>

@foreach

<a href=" {{ myData->href }} "> {{ myData->name }} </a>

@endforeach

</nav>

The problem is that when I click on the link "home" it sends me to this address :

http://127.0.0.1:8000/route(‘welcome’)
https://i.stack.imgur.com/FaET1.png

Instead of http://127.0.0.1:8000/

and this is a problem with every single link, it always returns

http://127.0.0.1:8000/route(‘myLink’)

this is my complete web.php for further information

Route::get('/', [HomeController::class, 'index'])->name('welcome');

Route::get('/dashboard', function () {
    return view('dashboard');
})->middleware(['auth', 'verified'])->name('dashboard');

require __DIR__.'/auth.php';

Route::resource('/nav', NavController::class);




// // Fallback page error 404

Route::fallback(FallbackController::class);

If you need more information please ask me, i’ve been trying to fix this issue for 2 days, and it is frustrating me.

I tried route:clear, cache:clear, view:clear and nothing changes.

Is it the format at which I’ve stored the name of the route that isn’t working ?

The thing is it was working for an hour or two. and now impossible to fix it.

I hope someone here can help.

Josh’s solution is working.

The route(‘welcome’) was passed through as a string. and the function route() was not called.

>Solution :

In your data, for the key href you just need to store welcome instead of route('welcome'). Then in your blade template, you can do

<a href="{{ route(myData->href) }}">login here</a>

The reason your solution is not working is that you just have the word route stored as a string, you aren’t actually calling the function called route.