Flattening Laravel Blade Files

This is a simple script to speed up Laravel Blade templates with lots of @includes.

The idea is to remove the overhead from creating a new View by instead directly calling PHP's require(). This can significantly speed up big Blade templates, that are constructed from lots of different small pieces, for templates with 1000+ includes it can make rendering up to 4x faster.

Usage:

php php artisan view:flatten

To reset the flattened views, you can run:

php php artisan view:cache

Advantages:

• more speed
• variables behave like they would with normal @includes

Disadvantages:

• Exceptions will not directly log the file and line number in the template where they were thrown
• Views won't automatically recompile when the source file changes