Laravel 11 without global middleware

[MircoBabin]

Hello,

After installing Laravel 11, there is only bootstrap/app.php for defining middlewares. As I don't want any "magical" middleware, I registered the middleware myself, without the ->withMiddleware() call.

I'm wondering if there are better techniques to accomplish the same thing? Because the $app->afterResolving looks a bit clumsy/fragile.

<?php

use Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel as HttpKernel;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Application;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Exceptions;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

$app = Application::configure(basePath: dirname(__DIR__))
    ->withRouting(
        web: __DIR__.'/../routes/web.php',
        // commands: __DIR__.'/../routes/console.php',
        // health: '/up',
        then: function ($app) {
            Route::middleware('my-api')->group(__DIR__.'/../routes/my-api.php');
        },
    )
    ->withExceptions(function (Exceptions $exceptions) {
    })->create();

//
// Custom middleware solution
// see also: Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\ApplicationBuilder function withMiddleware()
//
$app->afterResolving(HttpKernel::class, function ($kernel) {
    $kernel->setGlobalMiddleware([
        \Illuminate\Http\Middleware\TrustProxies::class,
        \App\Http\Middleware\Cors::class,
        \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\PreventRequestsDuringMaintenance::class,
        \Illuminate\Http\Middleware\ValidatePostSize::class,
    ]);

    $kernel->setMiddlewareGroups([
        'web' => [
            \Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
            \Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
            \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
            \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
            \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\ValidateCsrfToken::class,
            \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
        ],
        'my-api' => [
            \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
        ],
    ]);

    $kernel->setMiddlewareAliases([]);

    $kernel->setMiddlewarePriority([]);
});

return $app;