Momentum Trail

Momentum Trail is a Laravel package that provides a TypeScript route() helper function that works like Laravel's, making it easy to use your Laravel named routes in TypeScript with auto-completion and type-safety.

The package is built on top of Ziggy.

Installation
- Laravel
- Frontend
Usage
Auto-generation
Advanced Inertia
Momentum

Installation

Laravel

Install the package using composer.

composer require based/momentum-trail

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=trail-config

This is the contents of the published config file:

return [
    'output' => [
        'routes' => resource_path('scripts/routes/routes.json'),
        'typescript' => resource_path('scripts/types/routes.d.ts'),
    ],
];

Set the paths according to your directory structure. You can set the routes path to null in case you plan to use the Blade directive instead of importing JSON.

Frontend

Install the frontend package.

npm i momentum-trail
# or
yarn add momentum-trail

Usage

Run the following command to generate TypeScript declarations and make your routes available on the frontend.

php artisan trail:generate

Register your routes on the frontend. You can either import the generated JSON definition and pass it to the defineRoutes method within the entry point (app.ts) or use the @trail Blade directive to register routes in the window object and make them available globally.

import { defineRoutes } from "momentum-trail"
import routes from "./routes.json"

defineRoutes(routes)

Vue 3

Alternatively, you can register routes using a Vue 3 plugin.

import { trail } from "momentum-trail"
import routes from "./routes.json"

createInertiaApp({
  setup({ el, app, props, plugin }) {
    createApp({ render: () => h(app, props) })
      .use(trail, { routes })
  }
})

Server-side rendering

The SSR engine doesn't know the current URL you are requesting.

To make the method current work correctly on the initial page load, you must pass the initial URL to the options list.

createServer((page: Page) =>
  createInertiaApp({
    setup({ App, props, plugin }) {
      return createSSRApp({ render: () => h(App, props) })
        .use(trail, {
          routes,
          url: props.initialPage.url
        })
    },
  })
)

Blade

Optionally, add the @trail Blade directive to your main layout (before your application's JavaScript).

By default, the output of the @trail Blade directive includes a list of all your application's routes and their parameters. This route list is included in the HTML of the page and can be viewed by end users.

<html>
<head>
  @trail
</head>
</html>

Import the helper in your .vue files and enjoy perfect autocompletion and type-safety for both route and current methods.

<script lang="ts" setup>
import { route, current } from "momentum-trail"

const submit = () => form.put(route("profile.settings.update"))
</script>

<template>
  <a
    :class="[current('users.*') ? 'text-black' : 'text-gray-600']"
    :href="route('users.index')">
    Users
  </a>
</template>

The route helper function works like Laravel's — you can pass it the name of one of your routes, and the parameters you want to pass to the route, and it will return a URL.

// Generate a URL
route("jobs.index")
route("jobs.show", 1)
route("jobs.show", [1])
route("jobs.show", { job: 1 })

// Check the current route
current("jobs.*")
current("jobs.show")
current("jobs.show", 1)

For the complete documentation please refer to Ziggy.

Auto-generation

The package works best with vite-plugin-watch plugin. You can set up the watcher to run the command on every file change.

import { defineConfig } from "vite"
import { watch } from "vite-plugin-watch"

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    watch({
      pattern: "routes/*.php",
      command: "php artisan trail:generate",
    }),
  ],
})

Advanced Inertia

Take your Inertia.js skills to the next level with my book Advanced Inertia. Learn advanced concepts and make apps with Laravel and Inertia.js a breeze to build and maintain.

Momentum

Momentum is a set of packages designed to improve your experience building Inertia-powered apps.

Modal — Build dynamic modal dialogs for Inertia apps
Preflight — Realtime backend-driven validation for Inertia apps
Paginator — Headless wrapper around Laravel Pagination
Trail — Frontend package to use Laravel routes with Inertia
Lock — Frontend package to use Laravel permissions with Inertia
Layout — Persistent layouts for Vue 3 apps
Vite Plugin Watch — Vite plugin to run shell commands on file changes

Credits

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

im-aeo/momentum-trail