Setting Bootstrap navbar active class in Laravel 5

Question

I\'ve been wondering around looking for solutions, but can\'t really understand especially when creating helpers. I\'m new in Laravel and I want a simple or if not a detaile

Answer 1

If you are working with named routes. You can use this approach in your views:

{{ Route::currentRouteNamed('about') ? 'active' : '' }}

or

{{ Route::is('about') ? 'active' : '' }}

The Illuminate\Routing\Router#is(...) is an alias of the Illuminate\Routing\Router#currentRouteNamed(...).