# How to check Laravel Blade View Syntax using artisan?

By Bobby Iliev, 2020-08-26. https://bobbyiliev.com/post/how-to-check-laravel-blade-view-syntax-using-artisan/

# Introduction

The Laravel community has been growing exponentially, and there are a lot of fantastic packages out there. I recently came across a Laravel package that provides an artisan command to check the syntax of your blade templates.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the [Laravel Blade Linter package](https://github.com/Magentron/laravel-blade-lint) to check your blade views syntax!

# Prerequisites

Before getting started, you need to have a Laravel project up and running.

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# Installation

```
composer require magentron/laravel-blade-lint
```

# Testing

Once you have the package installed, in order to test your Blade syntax, you need to run the following command:

```
php artisan blade:lint
```

If you don't have any errors, you would see the following output:

```
All Blade templates OK!
```

On another note, if there are any issues anywhere in your blade files, you would get an error like this one:

```
PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting '(' in /var/www/html/resources/views/welcome.blade.php on line 103
Found 1 errors in Blade templates!
```

In my case, it tells me that I have a syntax error on line 103 in my `welcome.blade.php` file.

If you don't want to check all of your views, you can specify the path to a specific directory:

```
php artisan blade:lint resources/views/blog
```

# Conclusion

The Laravel Blade Linter is a great package that can help you avoid errors before pushing your code to production!

If you like the package, make sure to contribute at on [Github](https://github.com/Magentron/laravel-blade-lint)!