Can I use the Blade templating engine outside of Laravel?

Question

i'm want to creating a design pattern and use the "Blade templating engine". Can I use the Blade templating engine outside of Laravel and use it in my new pattern ?

Answer 1

For the record:

I tested many libraries to run blade outside Laravel (that i don't use) and most are poor hacks of the original library that simply copied and pasted the code and removed some dependencies yet it retains a lot of dependencies of Laravel.

So I created (for a project) an alternative for blade that its free (MIT license, i.e. close source/private code is OK) in a single file and without a single dependency of an external library. You could download the class and start using it, or you could install via composer.

https://github.com/EFTEC/BladeOne

https://packagist.org/packages/eftec/bladeone

It's 100% compatible without the Laravel's own features (extensions).

How it works:

<?php
include "lib/BladeOne/BladeOne.php";
use eftec\bladeone;

$views = __DIR__ . '/views'; // folder where is located the templates
$compiledFolder = __DIR__ . '/compiled';
$blade=new bladeone\BladeOne($views,$compiledFolder);
echo $blade->run("Test.hello", ["name" => "hola mundo"]);
?>

Another alternative is to use twig but I tested it and I don't like it. I like the syntax of Laravel that its close to ASP.NET MVC Razor.

Edit: To this date (July 2018), it's practically the only template system that supports the new features of Blade 5.6 without Laravel. ;-)