laravel Unable to prepare route ... for serialization. Uses Closure

I think that it's related with a route
Route::get('/article/{slug}', 'Front@slug');
associated with a particular method in my controller:

No, thats not it. The error message is coming from the route:cache command, not sure why clearing the cache calls this automatically.

The problem is a route which uses a Closure instead of a controller, which looks something like this:

//                       Thats the Closure
//                             v 
Route::get('/some/route', function() {
    return 'Hello World';
});

Since Closures can not be serialized, you can not cache your routes when you have routes which use closures.

If none of your routes contain closures, but you are still getting this error, please check

routes/api.php

Laravel has a default auth api route in the above file.

Route::middleware('auth:api')->get('/user', function (Request $request) {
    return $request->user();
});

which can be commented or replaced with a call to controller method if required.

This is definitely a bug.Laravel offers predefined code in routes/api.php

Route::middleware('auth:api')->get('/user', function (Request $request) { 
     return $request->user(); 
});

which is unabled to be processed by:

php artisan route:cache

This definitely should be fixed by Laravel team.(check the link),

simply if you want to fix it you should replace routes\api.php code with some thing like :

Route::middleware('auth:api')->get('/user', 'UserController@AuthRouteAPI');

and in UserController put this method:

 public function AuthRouteAPI(Request $request){
    return $request->user();
 }

The Actual solution of this problem is changing first line in web.php

Just replace Welcome route with following route

Route::view('/', 'welcome');

If still getting same error than you probab

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