Rendering specific fragment of a blade view in Laravel 9.x
Blade views are the most common way to render HTML in Laravel. But, what if you want to render a specific fragment of a blade view? For instance, you want to render a specific section of a blade view. Or, you want to render a specific component of a blade view.
A recent PR was merged in the Laravel framework which allows you to render a specific fragment of a blade view from controllers. So, let’s see how we can do that.
The fragment directive
The @fragment directive was introduced in Laravel 9.x and it allows you to render a specific fragment of a blade view.
Here’s how you can use it. First, you need to create a blade view with a fragment. For instance, let’s create a welcome.blade.php view with the new @fragment directive like so.
<!-- welcome.blade.php -->
<div>
Welcome to ACME.com!
@fragment('dialog')
<div>
<h1>Rendering from a fragment!</h1>
</div>
@endfragment
</div>
And then, you can render the fragment from the controller method like so.
// UserController.php
public function index()
{
return view('welcome')->fragment('dialog');
}
As you can tell, here, we’re rendering the welcome view and passing the dialog fragment to the fragment method. This will render the dialog fragment of the welcome view. This will render the following HTML.
<div>
<div>
<h1>Hi, John!</h1>
</div>
</div>
Use case
This comes in handy when you want to render a specific fragment of a blade view from a controller. For instance, in cases where you’re working with frontend frameworks that use the HTML over-the-wire concept such as Turbo, Unpoly, Htmx or Pjax and you have to return just a fragment of a view to replace a portion of the DOM.
As per the PR owner, “Fragments are just a way to extract a portion of a view”. So, they should be avoided in using them as a component alternative.
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