Breadcrumbs are one of those things that I don’t think about until I need them, and then I feel like I recreate a system for them in my application every time.
Laravel Breadcrumbs is a package by Dave James Miller that makes adding breadcrumb navigation to your application (relatively) painless with a simple API:
// HomeBreadcrumbs::for('home', function ($trail) { $trail->push('Home', route('home'));}); // Home > AboutBreadcrumbs::for('about', function ($trail) { $trail->parent('home'); $trail->push('About', route('about'));}); // Home > BlogBreadcrumbs::for('blog', function ($trail) { $trail->parent('home'); $trail->push('Blog', route('blog'));});To render breadcrumbs, you can pick from the following templates that ship with the Laravel Breadcrumb package at the time of writing:
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breadcrumbs::bootstrap4 -
breadcrumbs::bootstrap3 -
breadcrumbs::bootstrap2 -
breadcrumbs::bulma -
breadcrumbs::foundation6 -
breadcrumbs::materialize -
breadcrumbs::json-ld - The path to a custom view: e.g.
partials.breadcrumbs
Depending on which template you need, you configure it as a published configuration in config/breadcrumbs.php:
'view' => 'breadcrumbs::bootstrap4',And finally you render the breadcrumbs in your view:
{{ Breadcrumbs::render('category', $category) }}This package even supports JSON-LD structured data for SEO purposes which is really helpful:
<head> ... {{ Breadcrumbs::view('breadcrumbs::json-ld', 'category', $category) }} ...</head>Learn More
The Laravel Breadcrumb package is highly customizable and has a lot of documented options in the readme. You should check out the official GitHub repository for complete documentation and installation instructions.
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