Laravel Folio

Laravel Folio is a new automatic file and directory-based routing system. This gives you a "pages" directory; when one of those pages is hit from the URL, it automatically loads. Here is a preview of what Taylor demoed at Laracon.

Update: Laravel Folio beta is now released.

To use this feature, tell Laravel where your pages are located by defining them in the boostrap/app.php file:

return Application::configure()
    ->withRouting(
        web: __DIR__.'/../routes/web.php',
        commands: __DIR__.'/../routes/console.php',
        pages: __DIR__.'/../resources/views/pages',
    )

For example, if you have a static site with an index page and an about page, then your URLs would look like this:

• site.com
• site.com/about

Those would then map to an index.blade.php file and an about.blade.php file.

Laravel Folio also supports wildcards in your page names. This allows for dynamic routing. For example:

users/[id].blade.php

You can then use the id at the top of the page to pull in the model from the db directly in Blade.

@php
$user = /App/Models/User::findOrFail($id);
@endphp

But you can also take advantage of route model binding by changing the file name to use the Model:

/users/[User].blade.php

Then it just knows to load the User with the id passed. Pretty powerful!

But wait, there's more...

You can also bind models to a directory like this:

/talks/[Talk]/feedback.php

This would map to site.com/talks/1/feedback and automatically load the Talk model behind the scenes using FindOrFail.