Move index route to new route group

[Firtzberg]

The index route in the routes/web.php is misplaced and web middleware group not appropriate for web requests. The web routes and middleware are meant for session related requests as you can read in the app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php.

This in general is no big deal until you start integrating 3rd party packages like laravel-roles which use the 'web' middleware internally for their builtin admin panel.

I used that package in my project and realized the proper way to do this is to restore the 'web' middleware group and create a new one for my SPA index only. I added a new mapping to the RouteServiceProvider as below and moved the spa index endpoint to a new routes file.

    /**
     * Define the "spa" routes for the application.
     *
     * These routes are typically stateless.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function mapSpaRoutes()
    {
        Route::middleware('spa')
             ->namespace($this->namespace)
             ->group(base_path('routes/spa.php'));
    }

This allows me to have the API routes, SPA application and MVC based administration panel working side-by-side.

[Firtzberg]

@cretueusebiu Let me know if you're interested in a PR.
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[cretueusebiu]

If you could create a PR that would be great!