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How can I prepend a common path to all my routes?

You may have multiple middleware in your project, each providing their own functionality:

$middleware1 = new UserMiddleware();
$middleware2 = new ProjectMiddleware();

$app = AppFactory::create();
$app->pipe($middleware1);
$app->pipe($middleware2);

$app->run();

Let's assume the above represents an API.

As your application progresses, you may have a mixture of different content, and now want to have the above segregated under the path /api.

This is essentially the same problem as addressed in the "Segregating your application to a subpath" example.

To accomplish it:

• Create a new application.
• Pipe the previous application to the new one, under the path /api.

$middleware1 = new UserMiddleware();
$middleware2 = new ProjectMiddleware();

$api = AppFactory::create();
$api->pipe($middleware1);
$api->pipe($middleware2);

$app = AppFactory::create();
$app->pipe('/api', $api);

$app->run();

The above works, because every Application instance is itself middleware, and, more specifically, an instance of Stratigility's MiddlewarePipe, which provides the ability to compose middleware.