How do I disable Laravel view cache?

Question

I have an exception in one of my views. However, instead of telling me the name of the view so I can find it and fix it, laravel says it is in app/storage/views/110a3ecc0aa5ab7e6f7f50ef35a67a8b, which is meaningless.

How do I disable this view caching, so that laravel uses and refers to the actual files?

Answer 1

Out of the box? You can't. But you can extend the BladeCompiler class, overriding the method resposible for checking if the view has been expired:

class MyBladeCompiler extends BladeCompiler {

    public function isExpired($path)
    {
        if ( ! \Config::get('view.cache'))
        {
            return true;
        }

        return parent::isExpired($path);
    }

}

You'll need to replace the BladeCompiler instance in IoC container, with your own compiler:

$app = App::make('app'); // or just $app = app();

$app->bindShared('blade.compiler', function($app)
{
    $cache = $app['path.storage'].'/views';

    return new MyBladeCompiler($app['files'], $cache);
});

And then you just need to create that key in your app/config/view.php file

<?php

return [

    'cache' => false,

    'paths' => [base_path().'/resources/views'],

    'pagination' => 'pagination::slider-3',

];

Or, like I do here:

return [

    'cache' => in_array(App::environment(), ['production', 'staging']),

];