Implementing Slots and Components in Blade

1. Introduction

In this tutorial, we will learn how to use slots and components in Laravel's Blade templating engine. Blade is a simple, yet powerful templating engine provided by Laravel. It helps us to create reusable pieces of code by using components and slots.

The goal of this tutorial is to understand how to create reusable components and inject content into specific parts of the components using Slots. You will learn to create a component, define slots in it, and inject content into these slots.

Prerequisites:

• Basic understanding of Laravel and the Blade templating engine.
• Laravel environment set up on your system.

2. Step-by-Step Guide

Components and slots in Blade are similar to components and slots in Vue.js. They allow us to build HTML layouts with reusable code snippets.

Components:

A component is a reusable block of code that you can call from anywhere within your application.

To create a component, you can use the artisan command: php artisan make:component ComponentName

Slots:

Slots are placeholders within a component where you can inject content.

To define a slot within a component, you can use the <x-slot name="slotName"></x-slot> tag.

Injecting content into slots:

To inject content into a slot, you can use the same <x-slot> tag within the component call from your blade file.

3. Code Examples

Let's create a simple card component with slots for the title and content.

Create the component:

php artisan make:component Card

This will create a new file in resources/views/components/card.blade.php

Open the file and define the slots:

<div class="card">
  <div class="card-header">
    <x-slot name="title"></x-slot>
  </div>
  <div class="card-body">
    <x-slot name="content"></x-slot>
  </div>
</div>

Now, you can use this component and inject content into the slots:

<x-card>
  <x-slot name="title">Card Title</x-slot>
  <x-slot name="content">This is the card content.</x-slot>
</x-card>

The above code will output:

<div class="card">
  <div class="card-header">
    Card Title
  </div>
  <div class="card-body">
    This is the card content.
  </div>
</div>

4. Summary

In this tutorial, we learned how to create reusable pieces of code using components and slots in Laravel's Blade. We created a card component and injected content into its title and content slots.

For further learning, you can explore how to pass variables to components and how to create dynamic components.

You can refer to Laravel's official documentation for more information on Blade: Laravel's Blade Documentation

5. Practice Exercises

1. Create a Post component with slots for the title, author, and content. Use this component to display a blog post.

2. Create a Button component with a slot for the button label and a variable for the button style. Use this component to display different types of buttons.

Remember to experiment with different types of content and styles for your components. The more you practice, the more comfortable you'll get with using components and slots in Blade.