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gaboacosta/ui-tools
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A Library of helpers and adapters to ease web development

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Since Dec 26Pushed 12y agoCompare

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GaboAcosta UI-Tools

This is a library I'm building to make my work easier

Currently I'm working a lot with zurb/foundation and Laravel and one of the must cumbersome part of the development to me is coding a navigation bar which is aware of the route it's in so it can highlight menus and elements to provide a visual guide.

Here is where the NavBar part of the UI-Tools comes into play.

To start add to the requirements in your composer.json:

```
"gaboacosta/ui-tools": "dev-master"

```

Next, copy the file /vendor/gaboacosta/ui-tools/GaboAcosta/UITools/NaviGation/config.navBar.php to your /app/config folder, dont forget to rename it. You should now have /app/config/navBar.php

Next open up in your favorite editor /app/config/app.php and add this line to the providers array:

```
'GaboAcosta\UITools\Navigation\NavBarServiceProvider',

```

And this to your aliases array:

```
'NavBar'          => 'GaboAcosta\UITools\Navigation\FoundationNavBar',

```

Then open up the config file /app/config/navBar.php

Please note that the array for the menu entries is called routes, this means that as of this release you must bind every menu item to a named route, I've provided a field called implemented so you can elements which don't have a route yet, but the link to those will be just a #

Finally In the layout or view where you want to display this menu just call:

```
NavBar::render()

```

Please help me improve this project by reporting issues or making pull request to add functionality

Also please remember that you will have to manually get zurb/foundation working in your project to be able to use this library.

###  Health Score

20

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LowBetter than 14% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community2

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

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

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