Two of the primary benefits of using Blade are template inheritance and sections. To get started, let's take a look at a simple example. First, we will examine a "default" page layout. Since most web applications maintain the same general layout across various pages, it's convenient to define this layout as a single Blade view:
<!-- Stored as your theme/views/layouts/default.blade.php -->
<html>
<head>
<title>App Name - @yield('title')</title>
</head>
<body>
@section('sidebar')
This is the master sidebar.
@show
<div class="container">
@yield('content')
</div>
</body>
</html>As you can see, this file contains typical HTML mark-up. However, take note of the @section and @yield directives. The @section directive, as the name implies, defines a section of content, while the @yield directive is used to display the contents of a given section.
Now that we have defined a layout for our theme, let's define a child page that inherits the layout as outlined in Extending A Layout.