Laravel 5.4 add locale parameter to route generated links inside of a Blade View

I'm rewriting my app in terms of localization. I had it all setup and it worked, but I decided to use a middleware so I can control which routes should be localized and which not.

I'm having a problem with links generated on my page. All of the links are generated as the following

www.example.com/index

While the correct link would be

www.example.com/en/index

I have prefixed all my routes the following way

Route::group(['prefix' => '{lang}', 'middleware' => 'localize'], function () {

And my middleware localization class is the following:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;
use Request;

class Localize
{
    /**
     * Handle an incoming request.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @param  \Closure  $next
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        $locale = $request->lang;

        if(!array_key_exists($locale, config('app.locales')) && Request::path() != '/') {
            abort(404);
        }


        \App::setLocale($locale);

        return $next($request);
    }
}

In my Blade view, I am using

to generate links to different parts of my website (all routes are named). I know I can circumvent this issue by using

App::getLocale()

to prefix all my URLs in my blade template, but this is not a valid solution for me as it would probably introduce human errors (copy pasting the same line, there's a good chance I might mess something up) and it is time consuming. Is there a better way to achieve this?

via Petar-Krešimir