Laravel — P62: View Composers
In the last article we touched on sharing data with multiple views, but we never looked at why we would want to do that. Before we dig through view composers, we really should understand what question they’re trying to answer.
What is a View Composer?
Is a View Composer a Laravel term? No. A view composer is a design pattern used in web development that helps to separate the concerns of generating view data and rendering views in a web application.
In a web application, views often require data from multiple sources, such as a database or API, to be rendered properly. A view composer allows you to encapsulate the logic for retrieving this data and prepare it for the view, so that it can be reused across different views without duplicating code.
Overall, a view composer helps to improve the maintainability and scalability of a web application, by providing a way to encapsulate and reuse view-specific logic, and by reducing the number of database or API requests required to render views.
