Theme support for Laravel

Inspired by bigecko/laravel-theme. Themes are stored inside default laravel's resources folder

Introduction

This package provides a simple way to manage themes in Laravel applications.

For example, you can develop multiple themes for your application and easily switch between themes for different purposes.

Requirements

This version requires PHP 8.1 and supports Laravel 10-11.

This package also provides support for Laravel Mix and Vite configurations.

Themes	L5.5	L5.6	L5.7	L5.8	L6	L7	L8	L9	L10	L11
2.4	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
3.0	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
4.1	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌
5.0	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
5.1	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅

Installation

To get the latest version, simply require the project using Composer:

composer require "yaap/theme:^5.0"

or manually add line to composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "yaap/theme": "^5.0"
    }
}

Optionally, publish config using artisan CLI (if you want to overwrite default config).

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="YAAP\Theme\ThemeServiceProvider"

Configuration

Package config

Config in config/theme.php file.

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Path to directory with themes
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | The directory with your themes.
    |
    */

    'path' => base_path('themes'),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Path to directory with assets build
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | The directory with assets build in public directory.
    |
    */

    'assets_path' => 'themes',

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | A pieces of theme collections
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Inside a theme path we need to set up directories to
    | keep "layouts", "assets" and "partials".
    |
    */

    'containerDir' => [
        'assets' => 'assets',
        'lang' => 'lang',
        'layout' => 'views/layouts',
        'partial' => 'views/partials',
        'view' => 'views',
    ],
];

Theme config

Config in theme folder. Placeholder %theme_name% will be replaced with theme name on creation.

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Theme name
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Use in assets publishing etc.
    |
    */

    'name' => '%theme_name%',

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Inherit from another theme
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Set up inherit from another if the file is not exists.
    |
    */

    'inherit' => null,

];

Usage

Create theme with artisan CLI

Create command

The first time you have to create theme default structure, using the artisan command:

php artisan theme:create default

By default, it will use vite as assets builder. If you want to use laravel mix instead, use the command:

or with laravel mix:

php artisan theme:create default mix

Destroy command

To delete an existing theme, use the command:

php artisan theme:destroy default

Structure

Here is an example of the folder structure of project with theme

project-root
├── app/
<...>
├── public/
|   ├── index.php
|   └── themes/
|       └── default/
|           ├── js/
|           |   └── app.js
|           ├── css/
|           |   └── styles.css
|           └── images/
|               └── icon.png
├── resources/
<...>
├── themes/
|   ├── default/
|   |   ├── assets/        
|   |   ├── lang/        
|   |   ├── views/
|   |   |   ├── layouts/
|   |   |   ├── partials/
|   |   |   └── hello.blade.php
|   |   └── config.php
|   ├── admin/
|   ├── views/
|       ├── emails/
|       |   └── notify.blade.php
|       └── hello.blade.php

Init theme

To init and use theme in your application, add the following code to any boot method in application service provider (e.g. AppServiceProvider):

use YAAP\Theme\Facades\ThemeLoader;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    public function boot()
    {
        ThemeLoader::init('default');
    }
}

This will add to views find path:

• themes/{$name}/views

Lang files will be added as well:

• themes/{$name}/lang

Making view

Laravel: Creating & Rendering Views

View::make('hello');
View::make('emails.notify');

// or

view('hello');
view('emails.notify');

Assets

Vite

If you use Vite, ensure vite.config.js have specified the input path for theme

import {defineConfig} from 'vite';
import laravel from 'laravel-vite-plugin';

export default defineConfig({
    plugins: [
        laravel({
            input: [
                'themes/default/assets/js/app.js', // for default theme
                // ...
            ],
            refresh: true,
        }),
    ],
});

Because app.js includes app.scss you can use the following code to include assets in your views:

<head>
    <!--...-->
    @vite([
        'themes/default/assets/js/app.js',
    ])
</head>

Laravel Mix

If you use Laravel Mix, ensure webpack.mix.js have specified mix configuration for theme

const mix = require('laravel-mix');

mix.disableNotifications();
mix.browserSync({
    open: true,
    proxy: 'localhost:8000',
    files: [
        'app/**/*',
        'routes/**/*', 
        'themes/**/*', // manually add this line
    ]
});

// other configutraions...

// mix for default theme
mix.copyDirectory('themes/default/assets/img', 'public/themes/default/img');
mix.copyDirectory('themes/default/assets/fonts', 'public/themes/default/fonts');
// js
mix.js(['themes/default/assets/js/app.js'], 'public/themes/default/js/app.min.js')
// sass
mix.sass('themes/default/assets/sass/app.scss', 'public/themes/default/css/app.min.css')

Then you can use the following code to include assets in your views:

in the <head> tag

<head>
    <!--...-->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ mix('/themes/default/css/app.min.css') }}"/>
</head>

and before </body> tag

<body>
    <!--...-->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{{ mix('/themes/default/js/app.min.js') }}"></script>
</body>

To use images, you can use the following code:

<img src="{{ mix('themes/default/img/icon.png') }}" alt="icon">

Building layouts

Layouts using Components

Laravel: Blade Components

Layouts using template inheritance

To build layouts we use template inheritance. You can use @extends directive to specify a parent layout.

@extends('layouts.master')

@include('partials.header')

@section('content')
    <section id="main">
        <h1>HOME</h1>
    </section>
@stop

@include('partials.footer')

Fallback capability

You still able to use default View::make('emails.notify') which is stored outside the themes directory.

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License

MIT license.