Adding assets

A dynamic website almost requires the use of CSS and JavaScript. Using a Laravel asset package provides an easy way to manage these assets and include them in our views.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we'll need to use the code created in the Loading a view into another view/nested views recipe.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow these steps:

1. Open the composer.json file and add the asset package to the require section, so it looks similar to the following:

   "require": {
         "laravel/framework": "4.0.*",
         "teepluss/asset": "dev-master"
     },

2. In the command line, run composer update to download the package as follows:

   php composer.phar update
   

3. Open the app/config/app.php file and add ServiceProvider to the end of the providers array as follows:

   'Teepluss\Asset\AssetServiceProvider',

4. In the same file, in the aliases array, add the alias for the package as follows:

   'Asset' => 'Teepluss\Asset\Facades\Asset'

5. In the app/filters.php file, add a custom filter for our assets...