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Dynamic templates in Laravel Blade with View::first

Laravel 5.5 adds a new View::first option that allows you to pass an array of templates as the first argument and it will load the first template it finds.

Blade::if() Directives

A new Blade addition in Laravel 5.5 will add support for simplifying custom if statements in your views.

Laravel 5.5 Gets Improvements with the Default Error Views

Coming in Laravel 5.5 is a new and improved design for the error pages.

The Static Site Generator Jigsaw Launched V1.0

Jigsaw, a static site generator, made by Tighten just tagged and launched v1.0 that includes the addition of Collections. These allow you to work with a list of related content, like blog posts, a portfolio of your work, staff bios, and more.

Which Laravel Helper Do You Use for Your URLs?

Jacob Bennett ran a Twitter poll to see which URL helper most developers are using for their Blade views. The route helper won out and in this article let’s look at the different styles and some of the advantages and disadvantages to each.

PhpStorm Improves Support for Laravel Blade

PhpStorm just released version 2017.1 and it includes many improvements including support for Codeception, PhpUnit 6.0, and more PHP 7.x features. Beyond these, it also adds support for @includeWhen, @component and @slot directives and PHPDoc through Blade injections. Here is a screenshot showing the PhpDoc for Blade files: For the full details on this release …

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Laravel Include When Directive

A new feature in Laravel Blade is an includeWhen directive. This allows you to simplify a typical if statement into a single line. “I think it’s a cool feature as it tidies up so much boilerplate”, said James Brooks, the author of the pull request. To see this feature in use pretend you have this …

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Laravel Blade @prepend Directive

In version 5.4 Laravel added a new components and slots feature that simplifies building HTML elements into reusable areas. As an example of how this features works pretend you have a layout.blade.php file that includes this: <ul id=”sidebar”> @stack(‘sidebar’) </ul> Now when you want to insert data into this section from a sub-view you can …

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In Laravel 5.4 You Can Use Markdown in Your Emails

Coming to Laravel 5.4 is a brand new system for writing your emails templates in Markdown and it comes complete with automatic inline styling, various components and slots, and Litmus tested templates.

Laravel View Exists

Learn how to use Laravel’s view exist to easily load different views based on the category slug.