Working with Components and Slots
While layouts handle full-page structure, Blade components are built for smaller, reusable pieces of interface — things like a button, a card, or an alert box that appear in many places with slightly different content each time.
What Is a Blade Component?
A component pairs a small Blade view with an optional PHP class that can hold logic, accept data, and expose it cleanly to the view. Components can be as simple as a single Blade file or as structured as a dedicated class for complex behavior.
Passing Data with Props
Data is passed into a component the same way HTML attributes are written, and Laravel automatically makes those values available inside the component's view. This keeps component usage feeling natural and declarative.
Slots for Flexible Content
Not every piece of content fits neatly into a named attribute — sometimes a component needs to wrap arbitrary HTML passed in by whatever uses it. That's what slots are for, letting a component define a placeholder that any caller can fill freely.
| Concept | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Component class | Holds logic and data preparation for a reusable UI piece |
| Component view | Defines the actual HTML markup for the component |
| Props | Named values passed into a component, similar to HTML attributes |
| Default slot | The main content placed between a component's opening and closing tags |
| Named slots | Additional, labeled content areas inside a component |
Why Components Matter
- Reduce duplication of common UI patterns across the application
- Keep view-level logic organized and testable
- Make design updates consistent, since one component powers many pages
With views, layouts, and components in place, the natural next step is handling data coming from users — which starts with how Laravel processes form requests.
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