spatie/laravel-view-models

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A Laravel package by Spatie that provides view models: classes that prepare and transform data for views, keeping controllers slim. It offers a simple ViewModel base class to encapsulate view-specific logic.

Use cases

• move view preparation logic out of fat Laravel controllers
• pass structured data objects to Blade views
• organize complex view data like categories and URLs in one class
• replace or complement Laravel view composers
• keep create/edit form controllers clean

When to choose

• you use Laravel and controllers are doing heavy data preparation for views
• you want an alternative to view composers with explicit per-action data
• you prefer object-oriented view data over passing loose arrays

When to avoid

• you don't use Laravel or PHP
• your views are simple and controllers are already thin
• you rely on Blade components or Livewire for view logic

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library · maturity stable

templating middleware web-development backend developer-tools php laravel view-models mvc spatie blade

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