In the previous tutorials we created a fully CRUD API with unit tests, in this tutorial we'll understand how to work with views in Laragine.

When we installed Laragine in the previous tutorial, it's created under the core folder as we know, and also it has created a folder called the Base, we can't discuss everything in the Base folder in this tutorial, but I'll explain it separately.

under Base folder there are two folders called views - unit_template.

• In the views folder there's a folder called layout, in layout folder you should create the base views for your website like navbar sidebar - buttons - etc..

What's unit_template for, in core\Base?

let's assume that you'll create a blog, the blog has units like post - comment - like, each unit will have get - store - update - delete methods, right?

So each unit will have a form for creating - update and a page for showing all units - specific unit, so in each unit, you'll create these files and implement it, instead of creating the views each time in the unit you can put the default views that will be in each unit like form - table - show page and when create a unit you'll just add the non-common other stuff like attributes - titles - etc.. in the form - table - show page - etc.. and make minor changes depends on your project and your way.

let's go to the unit_template folder in core\Base you'll see five files _form - create - edit - index - show you can remove the current code it's just an example and put your own code inside it and make a style for it. you might be thinking now how can I use these files!

Note

Please take a look at the blade files inside core/Base/views and core/Base/unit_template you will notice that $global variable is shared across all the views, the $global variable will help you to load views - route dynamically.
I'll make seperated tutorial about the $global variable

I'll edit the _form file as an example in core/Base/unit_template

• Let's create a new unit called comment under blog module
  Blog module that we created in the previous tutorial
  php artisan laragine:unit comment --module=blog --init

• now I'll not discuss what we should do with JSON file if you don't know please see previous tutorial number (1)

• Let's run the second part of unit command
php artisan laragine:unit comment --module=blog

• let's go to core\Blog\views\comment
  if you remember I have just updated the _form file in core/Base/unit_template let's see it in the views in comment unit

it's the same code that I put in the _form file in the core/Base/unit_template folder, right? so we can conclude that each unit will copy the code under the core\Base\unit_template folder.

What're the benefits?
You might be wondering now what're the benefits of doing this, you don't need to write the same code each time in default files in each unit like forms - tables - shows page, you will just put your template with all style then the views will be created automatically for you, then you'll just write other stuff like attributes - titles - etc.. inside them.

*I mean by saying attributes the name of attributes in your table let's say when creating a _form view, you'll need to create new inputs for each attribute like title - body - etc..

Now let's put a route for views

go to core\Blog\routes\web.php and add Route::resource('comments', 'CommentController')->except([
'store', 'update', 'destroy'
]);


Testing

• now let's test the view, you can run php artisan serve to create http-server for your project HTTP-server will listen to port 8000

• let's go to http://localhost:8000/admin/commentsmain domain - route

• The style is not our main goal in this tutorial I just want to teach you how to work with views in Laragine, you can navigate to any route you want for comments.

let's go to http://localhost:8000/admin/comments/create

If you realized my template appears as I edited in the _form file which is just My Form text.

That's all the basic usage of Views in Laragine,
have fun experimenting in Laragine