A Practical Guide to Blade Templates
Laravel's templating engine, which compiles templates to plain PHP and provides layouts, components and directives.
Marcus Adeyemi
At a glance
- Compilation Blade templates compile to cached PHP
- Components encapsulate reusable markup with props
- Escaping Blade escapes output by default
- Layouts shared layouts keep pages consistent
Why it matters
Why it matters: Template structure decides how maintainable a site's front end is, and Blade components reduce duplication.
Best practice
- Build reusable components for repeated markup
- Keep logic out of templates
- Use layouts and slots for page structure
- Escape untrusted output
- Cache compiled views in production
Common pitfalls
Watch out for:
- Business logic inside templates
- Unescaped output of user content
- Copied markup across templates
- Deeply nested includes
When to call in a specialist
Bottom line Bring in help when template sprawl makes changes risky.
Where this comes from
- Laravel Documentation — Blade templates
- OWASP — Cross Site Scripting Prevention Cheat Sheet
The figures and practices above come from the sources listed.
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