Mastering Laravel Views and Blade Templating

Laravel views and Blade templating

Views are a crucial part of an MVC-based framework. They are based on the response’s presentation in a standardized format. In Laravel, view files comprise HTML, CSS, and JS files and are present in the resources/views folder.

A templating engine is software that helps us separate the presentation layer of our application from the logic layer. This makes it easier to maintain, update, and reuse our application. The Laravel Blade templating engine comes with a large number of features. These features help developers make the front code:

• Organized

• Less complex

• Easy to reuse

All the files in Laravel views are saved with the .blade extension. Due to this extension, the Laravel app renders and allows multiple reusable functions that make front-end configuration easier and more manageable. Built-in functions provided by Laravel Blade start with an @ sign.

Here are some important built-in functions that every developer should know:

• @for: This directive iterates over a collection of data and renders a template for each item in the collection.

• @foreach: This directive is a shorter version of @for.

• @if: This directive conditionally renders part of a template.

• @else: This directive is used with @if to render an alternative part of a template if the condition is not met.

• @elseif: This directive is used with @if to render an alternative part of a template if the condition is met, but another condition is not met. ...