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juy/active-menu
===============

The helper class for Laravel applications to get active class base on current route name

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Active Menu Laravel Package
===========================

[](#active-menu-laravel-package)

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> Helper class for Laravel applications to get active class base on current route name *(It's only detect "route name, this is enough for us.")*.

---

### Supported/Tested Laravel versions

[](#supportedtested-laravel-versions)

- Laravel **5.1** | **5.2** | **5.3** | **5.4**

### Requirements

[](#requirements)

- Laravel >= 5.1 : Laravel 5.1 or above.
- PHP >= 5.5.9 : PHP 5.5.9 or above on your machine.

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

[](#installation)

### Step:1 Install through composer

[](#step1-install-through-composer)

#### Install

[](#install)

```
➜ composer require juy/active-menu

```

> #### Manual install (alternative)
>
> [](#manual-install-alternative)

> Simply add the following to the "require" section of your composer.json file, and run `composer update` command.

> ```
> "juy/active-menu": "^1.1"
> ```

#### Remove

[](#remove)

```
➜ composer remove juy/active-menu

```

### Step 2: Add the service provider

[](#step-2-add-the-service-provider)

Append this line to your **service providers** array in `config/app.php`.

```
Juy\ActiveMenu\ServiceProvider::class,
```

### Step 3: Publish config

[](#step-3-publish-config)

Publish config file.

```
➜ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Juy\ActiveMenu\ServiceProvider" --tag="config"

```

### Config overview

[](#config-overview)

You can modify css active class with custom one *(default is 'active')* in `config/activemenu.php` *(after publish)*.

```
return [

    // The default css class value if the request match given route name
    'class' => 'active',

];
```

Usage, samples
--------------

[](#usage-samples)

Alias/Facade

```
Active::route('route.name');
```

Application container

```
app('active')->route('route.name');
```

Helper function

```
active_route('route.name');
```

Wildcard samples

```
Active::route('route.name.*');
active_route('route.name.*');
```

Multi route with wilcard

```
Active::route(['route.name1.*', 'route.name2.*']);
active_route(['route.name1.*', 'route.name2.*']);
```

Custom blade directive

```
@ifActiveRoute('route.name')
    Foo
@else
    Bar
@endif

```

---

Real life usage

```

    Dashboard

```

---

### License

[](#license)

This project is open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE.txt).

###  Health Score

32

—

LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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

Every ~39 days

Recently: every ~56 days

Total

12

Last Release

3347d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7eac408a2127af4440cf731d2358f23ef551a86f3c09263a1ad3e1a0de841edf?d=identicon)[angelside](/maintainers/angelside)

---

Top Contributors

[![angelside](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7515?v=4)](https://github.com/angelside "angelside (88 commits)")

---

Tags

laravelpackagelaravelclassmenuactive

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