Navigation and Routing

To fully leverage Splade's page loading capabilities, you must use the Splade Middleware on according routes. There are many ways of Registering Middlewares, but we recommend wrapping all routes into a group:

Route::middleware('splade')->group(function () {
    Route::view('/', 'welcome');
    Route::view('/contact', 'contact');
});

Now when you use the <Link> component, Splade will prevent a full page reload and only load the new page:

<h1>Welcome!</h1>
 
<Link href="/contact">Visit contact page</Link>

You may also configure Splade to transform all <a> elements as described in the Link Component section.

Preserve scroll position

When the user navigates through the app, the browser will reset the scroll position of scrollable elements. In some cases, this might not be a great user experience.

One example is a sidebar menu that's taller than the window height and thus has a vertical scrollbar. When a user clicks on a menu item in the bottom section and Splade navigates to the next page, you probably want to preserve the scroll position of the sidebar menu.

You may use the @preserveScroll directive on an element to tell Splade to keep track of the scroll position. Be sure to pass a unique name to the directive:

<div>
    <div @preserveScroll('sidebar') class="w-[16rem] absolute top-0 left-0 max-h-screen h-full overflow-y-scroll">
        {{-- scrolling menu --}}
    </div>
 
    <div class="pl-[16rem]">
        {{-- content --}}
    </div>
</div>

Alternatively, you may use the Vue equivalent of the directive:

<div v-SpladePreserveScroll:sidebar>
    ...
</div>

Redirects

Splade automatically handles redirects, both internally and externally. The default Laravel redirect methods just work:

return redirect('home/dashboard');
 
return redirect()->route('profile', ['id' => 1]);
 
return redirect()->away('https://www.google.com');

Splade detects when you redirect to an external domain outside of your app. You may use Laravel's built-in away() method on the redirect() helper method. Still, you may also use the redirectAway() method on the Splade facade to explicitly tell Splade to redirect away from the app:

return Splade::redirectAway('https://www.google.com');

View Transitions API

View Transitions is a new API in modern browsers designed to animate page transitions in SPAs like Splade. You can read more about it in the MDN docs. Note that this API is still experimental and not supported in all browsers.

To enable View Transitions in your Splade app, you must update the plugin options in the main app.js file by setting the view_transitions option to true:

createApp({ render: renderSpladeApp({ el }) })
    .use(SpladePlugin, {
        'view_transitions': true,
    })
    .mount(el);

Splade automatically detects if the browser supports the API.