Consider if the `route()` helper should throw if the route does not exist

[emmadesilva]

Right now, the route() helper returns null if the route does not exist. This means it can a typo in a Blade file like {{ route('hoem') }} will silently link to the same page (href=""). The DX could then be improved by throwing a helpful exception like in Laravel.

There have been some discussion on this before, IIRC, and we may want this in v2 paired with a deprecation warning for legacy uses.

[emmadesilva]

Previous discussion on the matter

• If a route is not found, an exception should be thrown #199
• Throw exception if route is not found #200
• Change most Route helpers to return null instead of throwing exceptions #591

[emmadesilva]

This is simple enough to fix by using getOrFail in the function, wondering if we should take more steps to normalize the API, and match to Laravel. I'm not sure if there is ever really a reason to want a null return here, I think if you don't want to catch an exception, it's better to use Routes::exists to check first. See #591 which was closed due to similar motivations

[emmadesilva]

Fixed in #1741