Simplify your Laravel & Blade ifs: @pro, @free and @guest

Custom if tags to clean up your Blade templates.

If you're building a SaaS, you'll eventually start accumulating a lot of if statements that display one version of content for pro users (your paying subscribers), your free uses (if you have a free tier), and your guest users (those not logged in).

You can use @if directives in your Blade templates for this, but eventually it starts getting ugly, especially if the conditions are long and complex.

 @if (auth()->user()->isProUser()) <button>Click here</button> @endif @if (auth()->user()->isFreeUser()) <button>Upgrade</button> @endif @guest <button>Sign up</button> @endif 

It'll be better if it can look like this instead.

 @pro <button>Click here</button> @endpro @free <button>Upgrade</button> @endfree @guest <button>Sign up</button> @endguest 

Well you can do that with Blade's custom if statements.

Just add the following to your AppServiceProvider's boot method:

 public function boot() { Blade::if('pro', function () { if (auth()->guest()) { return false; } return auth()->user()->isPro(); }); Blade::if('free', function () { if (auth()->guest()) { return false; } return auth()->user()->isOnFreeTier(); }); } 

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