When debugging Blade templates in Laravel 5.*, you often get unhelpful error messages that refer to cached views. Things were better in the past: The debugging view in version 4 offered more helpful features and was also visually appealing. With just a few lines of code, you can restore this functionality using whoops ("PHP errors for cool kids").
An exemplary error view looks like this in Laravel 5.4:
First you include the package "filp / whoops" in the dev block of composer.json:
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Then you modify the rendering method, which is responsible for sending the exception to the browser:
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Now you get the full code preview and other nice features like current environment variables:
