blade-nav.nvim

Navigating Blade views, components, routes and configs within Laravel projects

blade-nav.nvim is a Neovim plugin designed to enhance navigation within Laravel projects. It allows quick access to Blade views and their corresponding classes, enables navigation to the controller associated with a route name, and to configuration files. This plugin simplifies moving between controllers, routes, configuration files, Blade views, and components in Laravel applications.

In a Blade view

From Controller and Routes

Navigation

From Blade View

• Navigate to the parent view using @extends('name')
• Navigate to included views using @include('name')
• Open Blade components using <x-name />
• Open Livewire components using <livewire:name /> or @livewire('name')

From Controllers and Routes:

Open Blade views from controller or route definitions like

• Route::view('url', 'name')
• View::make('name')
• view('name')

From any PHP or Blade file:

• Open the controller associated with the route name: route('name') or to_route('name')
• Open configuration files using config('file.key')

Features

• Utilizes the gf (goto file) command for navigation.
• Provides a custom source for nvim-cmp (requires installation and configuration) for component selection.
• Provides a custom source for coq (requires installation and configuration).
• Has support for Livewire components v2 and v3.
• Has support for Filament components.
• Provides support for additional paths for Laravel Blade components.

Installation

To get started with blade-nav.nvim, add the plugin to your init.lua or init.vim file:

Using packer:

use {
  "ricardoramirezr/blade-nav.nvim",
  requires = {
    "hrsh7th/nvim-cmp",                    -- if using nvim-cmp
    { "ms-jpq/coq_nvim", branch = "coq" }, -- if using coq
  },
  ft = { "blade", "php" },
  config = function()
    require("blade-nav").setup({
      cmp_close_tag = true, -- default: true
    })
  end,
}

Using lazy:

{
    'ricardoramirezr/blade-nav.nvim',
    dependencies = { -- totally optional
        'hrsh7th/nvim-cmp', -- if using nvim-cmp
        { "ms-jpq/coq_nvim", branch = "coq" }, -- if using coq
    },
    ft = {'blade', 'php'}, -- optional, improves startup time
    opts = {
        close_tag_on_complete = true, -- default: true
    },
}

Usage

1. To navigate to a Blade view or its corresponding class:

• Place the cursor over the file name and use the gf command.

  • If the component view exists but there is no corresponding class, it opens the view file.
  • If the class exists but not its view, the class is opened.
  • If neither exists and is a Livewire component, it presents the option to create the component using php artisan make:livewire.
  • If neither exists and is a Blade component, it can present two or three options, depending on the component type. The options are, create the view component and cretate the component via php artisan make:component. A third option will be presented if you want to create an Anonymous Index Component.

  If the file does not exist and is in a subfolder that does not exist yet, you should create the directory, it can be done writing the file using ++p

2. To navigate to a controller associated with a route name:

   • Place the cursor over the route name and use the gf command.

3. To navigate to a configuration file:

   • Place the cursor over the configuration file name and use the gf command.

4. Select an existing resource using the custom source, write either:

• in a Blade file:

  • @extends('
  • @include('
  • <x-
  • <livewire:
  • @livewire('

• in a Controller or Route:

  • Route::view('
  • View::make('
  • view('

• in any PHP or Blade file:

  • route('
  • to_route('

  And the list of files will appear, and with the magic of completion the list if filtered while you write.

Configuration

No additional configuration is required. The plugin works out-of-the-box with the default gf command.

For cmd you should install the plugin.

For coq, you should install the plugin, coq_settings.match.max_results limits the result shown.

For completion to place nice with autopairs, you can set the close_tag_on_complete to false, blade-nav will not close the tag on complete.

  close_tag_on_complete = false, -- default: true

For packages that has Blade components, you should run the Ex command BladeNavInstallArtisanCommand to install the artisan command.

If you want blade-nav to search in other paths when using gf on a Laravel component, you can specify this by enabling the exrc option and adding to one of the supported files, i.e.:

vim.g.blade_nav = {
  laravel_components = {
    "resources/views/common",
  },
}

See :h VIMINIT

Customization with nvim-cmp

If you want to add an icon to blade-nav completion items in cmp, you can configure it through nvim-cmp's formatting options:

local kind_icons = {
    BladeNav = "", 
}

local cmp = require('cmp')

cmp.setup({
  formatting = {
    format = function(entry, item)

      if kind_icons[item.kind] then
        item.kind = string.format('%s %s', kind_icons[item.kind], item.kind)
      end

      return item
    end
  },
})

Health

To check the health of the plugin, run :checkhealth blade-nav.

Contributing

Feel free to submit issues or pull requests to enhance the functionality of this plugin.

License

This plugin is open-source and distributed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the Neovim and Laravel communities for their continuous support and contributions.