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codelinde/laravel-navsmith
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Create navigation links from Laravel routes with ease.

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Navsmith
========

[](#navsmith)

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**Navsmith** is a lightweight, unintrusive Laravel package for easily creating navigation links out of routes you define. It's particularly useful for SPA-like sites.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Just define your routes using the `navsmith` method and give them route names you'd like to use in your display...

```
Route::navsmith(function () {
    Route::get('/', Welcome::class)->name('home');
    Route::get('/about', About::class)->name('about');
    Route::get('/contact', Contact::class)->name('contact');
});
```

Include the `x-navsmith` Blade component...

```

```

And you get display-ready HTML links.

```

    Home

    About

    Contact

```

Using the `current` attribute on the component, you can give the links different styling according to whether they are the currently-visited page (either CSS styles or class-based styles) and get a SPA-like experience:

**Class-based styles (e.g. [TailwindCSS](https://tailwindcss.com/))**

```

Home
```

**CSS styles**

```

Home
```

You can also pass through any attributes to your links. This is particularly useful if you're using [Livewire](https://livewire.laravel.com) and want to take advantage of its SPA-like navigation features by using `wire:navigate`.

```

Home
```

Furthermore, a `navsmith_route` helper function is provided so that you can refer to your Navsmith routes elsewhere in your code without having to remember the specific naming prefix applied.

Given a route definition like this

```
Route::navsmith(function () {
    Route::get('/a-cumbersome-url', Contact::class)->name('contact');
});
```

And a call to `navsmith_route` like this

```
Please visit the contact page to send us an e-mail.
```

The HTML will render like this

```
Please visit the contact page to send us an e-mail.
```

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

Navsmith requires Laravel 10 or 11 and PHP 8.2+.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can install the package via composer:

```
composer require codelinde/navsmith
```

Customization
-------------

[](#customization)

You can publish the views to make any desired alterations by running the following command.

```
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="navsmith-views"
```

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

```
composer test
```

Changelog
---------

[](#changelog)

Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

Security Vulnerabilities
------------------------

[](#security-vulnerabilities)

Please review [our security policy](../../security/policy) on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Ryan Linde](https://github.com/codelinde)
- [All Contributors](../../contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance66

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity46

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 50% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

639d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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