php - How to set the Laravel middleware order of execution?

Question

The Laravel 5 documentation describes two ways of assigning Middleware:

1. Assign middleware to the controller's route.
2. Specify middleware within your controller's constructor.

However, I realised that any code written in the controllers __construct() function will run before the Middleware, even if the Middleware is declared on the first line of the controller's __construct function.

I found a bug report for a similar issue in the Laravel github repository. However a collaborator closed the issue stating "This is the expected behaviour.".

I am thinking that middleware should be "layers" outside the application, while the __construct function is part of the application.

Why is the __construct function executed before the middleware (given it is declared before middleware runs)? and why this is expected?

Answer 1

Another answer to cover another use case to that question

If it's related to the order between middleware it self

You can update the $middlewarePriority in your AppKernel.