Not working for Laravel 5.3

[mschink]

I've followed the documentation very closely and it's still missing something, perhaps namespace related?

Here's my composer.json:

    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.6.4",
        "laravel/framework": "5.3.*",
    "laracasts/utilities": "~2.0"
    },

Then in cmd:

composer update

results in vendor\laracasts\utilities\ as expected

Then I modify app.php:

    'providers' => [
        /*
         * Laravel Framework Service Providers...
         */
        ...
        `Laracasts\Utilities\JavaScript\JavaScriptServiceProvider`
    ],

Here's the part where I think there's definitely some issue in 5.3, because php artisan vendor:publish gives the following output:

Copied Directory [\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Notifications\resources\views] To [\resources\views\vendor\notifications]
Copied Directory [\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pagination\resources\views] To [\resources\views\vendor\pagination]
Publishing complete for tag []!

No mention of the config for javascript, and there's no javascript.php file copied to config/

But maybe it will still work, so in my IndexController.php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
...
use JavaScript;
...
class IndexController extends Controller
{
  public function getIndex(){
  JavaScript::put([
    'foo' => 'bar'
    ]);

Results in the following error:

FatalThrowableError in IndexController.php line 38:
Class 'JavaScript' not found

[eugenefvdm]

I tested with two Laravel 5.3 projects, one small site and a completely new install, and it worked.

Some pointers:

1. In config/app.php I needed:

Laracasts\Utilities\JavaScript\JavaScriptServiceProvider::class,

as I have a later PHP version. Make absolutely sure you have this as above.

2. I had to create a blank footer.blade.php. The documentation is a bit unclear, but if you don't have that file, create it (and blank worked).

3. Your actual error of class not found sounds like something fundamental is wrong.

4. I didn't need to publish to get it working.

[mschink]

Thanks for the detailed response.

I did try the ::class notation for later versions of PHP, but no luck with that. I currently have a file footer.blade.php in views/templates/ so I'm not sure if this requirement is directory-sensitive.

I will try doing this with a brand new project, and report the results. These things might be nice to include in the documentation so there's less clutter of questions regarding setting up the package!

Cheers.

UPDATE: For anyone else having similar issues as I had above, I highly suggest rebuilding your app from scratch. As far as I know, I did nothing different, but it's working now. Consider this issue resolved, though, an update to the documentation would be great for first-timers who haven't installed a 3rd party package via Composer.

[jamesmorrish]

I've just been tearing my hair out for the past hour. It just wasn't running the boot method on the service provider.

Eventually I got it to work by running

php artisan config:clear php artisan config:cache php artisan clear-compiled

[Mutasim0520]

I am also having the same problem? @mschink did you solve it?

[mschink]

@Mutasim0520 I think if you follow what @jamesmorrish said above you'll find it works. It could be related to caching issues or perhaps my unfamiliarity with using Composer. Because I have my entire project versioned on Git, the last resort was simple enough: clone a new copy of the project and see if it works there.

[TinoN]

@eugenevdm to make your post a little clearer: I only got it working if the code is within the footer.blade.php file u mentioned.

EDIT: behaviour is accordingly, the configuration is bound to

    'bind_js_vars_to_this_view' => 'footer',

(README.md)

Laravel: 5.4 PHP-Vars-To-Js-Transformer: 2.1

1. composer require laracasts/utilities
2. in config/app.php add

   'providers' => [
   ...,
   Laracasts\Utilities\JavaScript\JavaScriptServiceProvider::class,
   ...
   ];

3. in routes/web.php

   Route::get('/', function () {
   JavaScript::put(['foo' => 'bar']);
   return view('welcome');
   });

4. for example in welcome.blade.php add before <\/body>

        @include ('footer')
   </body>

5. create footer.blade.php and within this file add

   <script>console.log(foo);</script>

6. php artisan serve
7. check console output, should be:

   bar