Laravel 4: What is the replacement for Asset::add?

Question

How do you manage assets in the new Laravel 4? It looks like Taylor Otwell has replaced Asset::add with something new.

What I am trying to do is have Laravel add my CSS and JS files. There were several ways to do this in Laravel 3, but they seem to be gone now. One was Asset::add and the other was HTML. What are the replacements for these?

Answer 1

In Laravel 4 you can use the HTML class, it's default included in the Laravel Framework package:

Stylesheet:

{{ HTML::style('css/style.css') }}

Javascript:

{{ HTML::script('js/default.js') }}

Answer 2

I use the helper:

<script src="{{ asset('js/jquery-1.9.1.js') }}"></script>
<script src="{{ asset('js/bootstrap.min.js') }}"></script>

See also

vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/helpers.php

Many other helpers too, e.g. app_path(), various array tools, link_to_route(), link_to_action(), storage_path(), etc.

Answer 3

Laravel 4 doesn't have out of the box asset management. But some packages have been created to handle this kind of thing.

• codesleeve/asset-pipeline (my favorite so far)

• jasonlewis/basset (had some errors with this)

• teepluss/asset (closest to Laravel 3 Asset::add() but doesn't do concatenation or minification)

• way/guard-laravel (requires ruby guard gem to run)