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Helpers

Turbo Laravel has a set of Blade Directives, Components, helper functions, and request/response macros to help making the most out of Turbo in Laravel.

Blade Directives

The @domid() Blade Directive

Since Turbo relies a lot on DOM IDs, the package offers a helper to generate unique DOM IDs based on your models. You may use the @domid Blade Directive in your Blade views like so:

<turbo-frame id="@domid($post)">
    <!-- Content -->
</turbo-frame>

This will generate a DOM ID string using your model's basename and its ID, such as post_123. You may also give it a prefix that will be added to the DOM ID, such as:

<turbo-frame id="@domid($post, 'comments')">
    <!-- Comments -->
</turbo-frame>

Which will generate a comments_post_123 DOM ID, assuming your Post model has an ID of 123.

Blade Components

The <x-turbo::frame> Blade Component

You may also prefer using the <x-turbo::frame> Blade component that ships with the package. This way, you don't need to worry about using the @domid() helper for your Turbo Frame:

<x-turbo::frame :id="$post">
    <!-- Content -->
</x-turbo::frame>

To the :id prop, you may pass a string, which will be used as-is as the DOM ID, an Eloquent model instance, which will be passed to the dom_id() function that ships with the package (the same one as the @domid() Blade directive uses behind the scenes), or an array tuple where the first item is an instance of an Eloquent model and the second is the prefix of the DOM ID, something like this:

<x-turbo::frame :id="[$post, 'comments']">
    <!-- Comments -->
</x-turbo::frame>

Additionally, you may also pass along any prop that is supported by the Turbo Frame custom Element to the <x-turbo::frame> Blade component, like target, src, or loading. These are the listed attributes, but any other attribute will also be forwarded to the <turbo-frame> tag that will be rendered by the <x-turbo::frame> component. For a full list of what's possible to do with Turbo Frames, see the documentation.

The <x-turbo::stream> Blade Component

If you're rendering a Turbo Stream inside a your Blade files, you may use the <x-turbo::stream> helper:

<x-turbo::stream :target="$post" action="update">
    @include('posts.partials.post', ['post' => $post])
<x-turbo::stream>

Just like in the Turbo Frames' :id prop, the :target prop of the Turbo Stream component accepts a string, a model instance, or an array to resolve the DOM ID using the dom_id() function.

The <x-turbo::refresh-method method="morph" /> Blade Component

We can configure which update method Turbo should so to update the document:

Method Description
replace Updates the entire body of the document on Turbo Visits
morph Uses DOM morphing to update the document instead of replacing everything

Here's how you can use it:

<x-turbo::refresh-method method="morph" />

The output would be:

<meta name="turbo-refresh-method" content="morph">

The <x-turbo::refresh-scroll scroll="preserve" /> Blade Component

You can also configure the scroll behavior on Turbo:

Behavior Description
reset Resets the scroll position to the top, mimicking for the browser handles new page visits
preserve Preserves the current scroll position (usually results in a better UX when used with the morph method)

Here's how you can use it:

<x-turbo::refresh-scroll scroll="preserve" />

The output would be:

<meta name="turbo-refresh-scroll" content="preserve">

The <x-turbo::refreshes-with> Blade Component

You may configure both the refresh method and scroll behavior using the <x-turbo::refreshes-with /> component in your main layout's <head> tag or on specific pages to configure how Turbo should update the page. Here's an example:

<x-turbo::refreshes-with method="morph" scroll="preserve" />

This will render two HTML <meta> tags:

<meta name="turbo-refresh-method" content="morph">
<meta name="turbo-refresh-scroll" content="preserve">

The <x-turbo::exempts-page-from-cache /> Blade Component

This component may be added to any page you don't want Turbo to keep a cache in the page cache. Example:

<x-turbo::exempts-page-from-cache />

It will render the HTML <meta> tag:

<meta name="turbo-cache-control" content="no-cache">

The <x-turbo::exempts-page-from-preview /> Blade Component

This component may be added to any page you don't want Turbo to show as a preview on regular navigation visits. No-preview pages will only be used in restoration visits (when you use the browser's back or forward buttons, or when when moving backward in the navigation stack). Example:

<x-turbo::exempts-page-from-preview />

It will render the HTML <meta> tag:

<meta name="turbo-cache-control" content="no-preview">

The <x-turbo::page-requires-reload /> Blade Component

This component may be added to any page you want Turbo to reload. This will break out of Turbo Frame navigations. May be used at a login screen, for instance. Example:

<x-turbo::page-requires-reload />

It will render the HTML <meta> tag:

<meta name="turbo-visit-control" content="reload">

Helper Functions

The package ships with a set of helper functions. These functions are all namespaced under HotwiredLaravel\\TurboLaravel\\ but we also add them globally for convenience, so you may use them directly without the use statements (this is useful in contexts like Blade views, for instance).

The dom_id()

The mentioned namespaced dom_id() helper function may also be used from anywhere in your application, like so:

use function HotwiredLaravel\TurboLaravel\dom_id;
 
dom_id($comment);

When a new instance of a model is passed to any of these DOM ID helpers, since it doesn't have an ID, it will prefix the resource name with a create_ prefix. This way, new instances of an App\\Models\\Comment model will generate a create_comment DOM ID.

These helpers strip out the model's FQCN (see config/turbo-laravel.php if you use an unconventional location for your models).

The dom_class()

The dom_class() helper function may be used from anywhere in your application, like so:

use function HotwiredLaravel\TurboLaravel\dom_class;
 
dom_class($comment);

This function will generate the DOM class named based on your model's classname. If you have an instance of a App\Models\Comment model, it will generate a comment DOM class.

Similarly to the dom_id() function, you may also pass a context prefix as the second parameter:

dom_class($comment, 'reactions_list');

This will generate a DOM class of reactions_list_comment.

The turbo_stream()

You may generate Turbo Streams using the Response::turboStream() macro, but you may also do so using the turbo_stream() helper function:

use function HotwiredLaravel\TurboLaravel\turbo_stream;
 
turbo_stream()->append($comment);

Both the Response::turboStream() and the turbo_stream() function work the same way. The turbo_stream() function may be easier to use.

The turbo_stream_view()

You may combo Turbo Streams using the turbo_stream([]) function passing an array, but you may prefer to create a separate Blade view with all the Turbo Streams, this way you may also use template extensions and everything else Blade offers:

use function HotwiredLaravel\TurboLaravel\turbo_stream_view;
 
return turbo_stream_view('comments.turbo.created', [
    'comment' => $comment,
]);

Request & Response Macros

The request()->wantsTurboStream() macro

The request()->wantsTurboStream() macro added to the request class will check if the request accepts Turbo Stream and return true or false accordingly.

Turbo will add a Accept: text/vnd.turbo-stream.html, ... header to the requests. That's how we can detect if the request came from a client using Turbo.

The request()->wasFromTurboFrame() macro

The request()->wasFromTurboFrame() macro added to the request class will check if the request was made from a Turbo Frame. When used with no parameters, it returns true if the request has a Turbo-Frame header, no matter which specific Turbo Frame.

Aditionally, you may specific the optional $frame parameter. When that's passed, it returns true if it has a Turbo-Frame header where the value matches the specified $frame. Otherwise, it will return false:

if (request()->wasFromTurboFrame(dom_id($post, 'create_comment'))) {
    // ...
}

The request()->wasFromTurboNative() macro

The request()->wasFromTurboNative() macro added to the request class will check if the request came from a Turbo Native client and returns true or false accordingly.

Turbo Native clients are encouraged to override the User-Agent header in the WebViews to mention the words Turbo Native on them. This is what this macro uses to detect if it came from a Turbo Native client.

The response()->turboStream() macro

The response()->turboStream() macro works similarly to the turbo_stream() function above. It was only added to the response for convenience.

The response()->turboStreamView() macro

The response()->turboStreamView() macro works similarly to the turbo_stream_view() function above. It was only added to the response for convenience.

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