I'm a Laravel Contributor, finally!

So, at 36 years old, after using Laravel since version 3, I made my first contribution to core.

And… it wasn’t even an idea of mine, really, it was an idea from @joshhanley on Twitter 🧵 that I nerd-sniped so I could try out the contribution process.

The idea was originally to add a @when directive to blade, but it was dialled back to prevent potential confusion, plus - see further down the post for how to add it into your app.

I would love to contribute more to open source, as well as build more packages in my little package repository at github.com/intrfce - but I work a lot of hours a day at my job, passionately, to build features, and it doesn’t leave much time for it.

Thanks, Josh Hanley & Josh Cirre!

So… yeah, the when() helper is now in core as a way of printing or returning something when a condition is truthy:

<div {!! when($isTrue, 'wire:poll.5ms="myMethod"') !!}>

Add the @when directive to blade in your app.

If you want to use this to add a @when directive to your own app to use in blade, you can do it by adding this to your app's ApplicationServiceProvider, in the boot() method.

I've actually added two directives here: @when and @whenRaw - @when will escape the output like {{ }} would do in blade, where as @whenRaw won't, like blade's {!! !!} tag.

<?php

// AppServiceProvider.php

public function boot()
{
    Blade::directive('when', function (string $expression) {
        return "<?php echo e(when($expression)) ?>";
    });

    Blade::directive('whenRaw', function (string $expression) {
        return "<?php echo when($expression) ?>";
    });
}