why use of as nickname route using in laravel and when use it

Question

advantage of as keyword using laravel route system

why, when and where its usage is better

how many ways to access route url define by the as keyword and without define as keyword in laravel

Answer 1

Using named routes lets you change the URL for your routes without having to go change the URLs all throughout the application. It's also potentially shorter - you can (as a contrived example) have a named route of login for the path app/user/login.