[Feature]: Search and Jump to Defined Laravel Routes in VS Code

[slowlyo]

Feature Description

First of all, thank you for maintaining the official Laravel VS Code extension — it already provides great DX improvements for Laravel development.

I would like to request a feature related to route discovery and navigation.

Currently, in medium to large Laravel projects, it is often difficult to quickly locate where a specific route is defined, especially when:

• Routes are split across multiple files (web.php, api.php, custom route files)
• Routes are grouped with prefixes, middleware, or namespaces
• Route definitions use closures, controllers, invokable classes, or route macros

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Requested Feature

Add support for searching and jumping to defined Laravel routes directly from VS Code.

Possible capabilities (any subset would already be very helpful):

• Search routes by:

  • URI (e.g. /users/{id})
  • Route name (e.g. users.show)
  • HTTP method (GET / POST / etc.)

• Show route metadata:

  • Method(s)
  • URI
  • Route name
  • Controller / action
  • Source file & line number

• Click to jump directly to the route definition

• Optional: command palette integration, e.g.
  Laravel: Search Routes

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Why This Is Useful

• Improves navigation and code discovery in large Laravel codebases

• Reduces reliance on manually running php artisan route:list

• Aligns with existing IDE features like:

  • “Go to Controller”
  • “Go to View”

• Competing editors and some community extensions already provide partial solutions, but having this built into the official extension would be a big DX improvement

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Implementation Ideas (Optional)

• Parse routes via:

  • php artisan route:list --json
  • Or static analysis of route files

• Cache results for performance

• Update cache on file change or via a manual refresh command

(I understand there may be technical constraints — these are just suggestions.)

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Closing

Thanks again for your work on the Laravel VS Code extension.
I’d be happy to help test or provide feedback if this feature is considered.