Laravel Blade Debugbar

A Laravel Debugbar extension that adds a Blade Variables tab showing all variables passed to Blade views.

Features

• Displays all variables passed to each Blade template in a dump()-like format
• Automatically filters out Laravel system variables (__env, app, errors, etc.)
• Converts Eloquent models and collections to arrays for readable output
• Marks or hides shared variables (View::share())
• Optional grouping by view name
• Alphabetical sorting

Requirements

• PHP 8.0+
• Laravel 9, 10, 11, or 12
• barryvdh/laravel-debugbar 3.7+

Installation

composer require --dev rocont/laravel-blade-debugbar

The service provider is registered automatically via Laravel Package Discovery.

Configuration

Publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=blade-debugbar-config

This creates config/blade-debugbar.php:

return [

    // Group variables by Blade view name (e.g. "welcome → $title")
    'group_by_view' => false,

    // Additional variables to exclude (system variables are always excluded)
    'excluded_variables' => [],

    // How to handle View::share() variables: "mark", "hide", or "show"
    'shared_mode' => 'mark',

];

Options

Shared mode

• mark — shared variables are shown with a [shared] prefix, e.g. [shared] $currentUser
• hide — shared variables are excluded completely
• show — shared variables are shown without any distinction

Usage

Once installed, open any page in your Laravel app. The Debugbar will show a new Blade Variables tab with all variables passed to each rendered Blade template.

Example output

Flat mode (group_by_view: false):

$posts          → array (3) [...]
$title          → "Blog"
[shared] $user  → array ["id" => 1, "name" => "John"]

Grouped mode (group_by_view: true):

blog.index → $posts    → array (3) [...]
blog.index → $title    → "Blog"
layouts.app → [shared] $user → array ["id" => 1, "name" => "John"]

Testing

composer test

Or directly:

vendor/bin/phpunit

License

MIT