Organizing your Blade files

To begin, let's look over where our theme files exist per the default Laravel install and do some touch up work to organize them in a better way. We are also going to use a scaffolding library to get us going quickly.

Getting ready

If you have been following this far, you are set. Any fresh install of Laravel should be fine too.

How to do it...

1. Install this library, https://github.com/alnutile/l5scaffold, as the documents note. Note the extra step, since it is a fork:

   

   And you may have to add minimum-stability at the end of the composer.json file:

   

2. Then we are going to scaffold out a model, migration, views, and more.

   

3. It will output some info, and the last line will show the route your need to add to your routes.php file Route::resource("users","UserController"); // Add this line in routes.php.

4. Now we do not need another user migration, so let's delete that one. If you look in the migration folder, it is the file at the bottom of that list:

   

   Delete the one we just made.

5. Then...