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What is Blade Templating and how do custom directives work?

❓ Interview Prompt: Explain Blade template inheritance, layout views, components, control structures (@if, @foreach), and custom directives.

Blade is Laravel's simple yet powerful templating engine. Blade views compile to plain PHP code and are cached until modified.

Core Features:

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Template Inheritance: Uses '@extends("layouts.app")' and '@section("content")' to build master layout hierarchies.
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Control Structures: Offers concise directives like '@if', '@auth', '@guest', and '@forelse'.
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Custom Directives: Created via 'Blade::directive("money", callback)' in Service Providers.

Code Implementation Example

php
<?php
// In AppServiceProvider::boot()
use IlluminateSupportFacadesBlade;

Blade::directive('currency', function ($expression) {
    return "<?php echo '$' . number_format($expression, 2); ?>";
});
💡Registering a custom Blade directive for currency formatting.
🎯 Interview Key Takeaway

Blade templates compile to plain PHP and offer clean layout inheritance and custom directive extensions.

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