Activate links of Laravel Blade based on current route name

Consider a navigation menu with a bunch of links and you are trying to activate them based on the current active route name. In a normal case, you have to return the currentRouteName() from the controller or maybe in a view composer or any other place. I have written a simple Laravel composer package that makes it a little bit simpler.

You can take a look at it here: https://github.com/hamidhaghdoost/active.

For installation, use the composer require command like this:

composer require tuytoosh/active

Then use the @active() directive in your blade files.

<a href="#" class="@active('home')">Home page</a>

Without this package, you have to write something like this:

<a href="#" class="@if(Route::getCurrentRouteName() == 'home') active @endif">Home page</a>

After version 1.7.0, you are able to define an array of route patterns like this:

class="@active(['admin.dashboard', 'user.dashboard'])"

If you find it useful, give it a star :)

Thank you for reading.