Mastering Laravel 10.x: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Using Blade Templates
Hello, Codehammers! :hammer_and_wrench: Welcome to another intuitive session on Laravel 10.x. In today's blog post, we'll be going through a comprehensive walkthrough on Laravel's Blade template engine. Let's dive right in.
What is Blade?
Blade is a simple, yet powerful templating engine provided with Laravel. It does not restrict you from using plain PHP code in your views. In fact, all Blade views are compiled into plain PHP code and cached until they are modified, meaning Blade essentially adds no overhead to your application ⚡🚀.
Have a look at the basic syntax of a blade file:
<!-- Stored in resources/views/greeting.blade.php -->
<html>
<body>
<h1>Hello, {{ $name }}</h1>
</body>
</html>
Here {{ $name }} is a placeholder, and Laravel dynamically gets the value of $name, replacing the placeholder.
Creating a new Blade template
Let's see how to create a simple Blade template. We'll build a template for a welcome page of a website. In most Laravel applications, you'll find Blade templates in the resources/views directory.
touch resources/views/welcome.blade.php
And then in this file, you can easily write some HTML:
<!-- Stored in resources/views/welcome.blade.php -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Welcome Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to our site, {{ $name }}</h1>
</body>
</html>
Rendering a Blade Template
Rendering a blade template in Laravel is as straightforward as creating one. Go to the web routes file (routes/web.php), and set up a route for rendering the welcome view:
Route::get('/', function () {
return view('welcome', ['name' => 'Laravel Crusaders']);
});
That's it for today's lecture on Laravel Blade Templates. Hopefully, this introductory guide gives you a good start on how to render dynamic HTML content using Blade. 🚀🧙♂️.
Until next time, Happy Coding! 😄👨💻.
References:
- Laravel Blade Templates: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/blade
- Laravel Route: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/routing
Please note, technology evolves rapidly so some of these resources can become outdated. Always check the official Laravel documentation for the latest, most accurate information.
