How to Share Global Data Across Views in Laravel

Laravel’s View::share method offers an elegant solution for making data universally accessible across all views in your application. It’s particularly useful for managing global settings, user-specific preferences, or frequently used UI components without repetitive code.

When building Laravel applications, you might need to provide common data — such as site-wide configurations, user details, or navigation menus — to most or all of your views. While passing such data explicitly from each controller is an option, it can lead to unnecessary repetition and clutter. By using View::share, you can define global data in a single location and ensure it’s seamlessly available across your entire application.

Why Use View::share?

This feature is ideal for:

• Global settings: Application name, version, contact details.
• User-specific information: Themes, preferences, notifications.
• Common UI elements: Navigation menus, social media links, footers.
• System-wide alerts: Maintenance messages or announcements.

Here’s a simple implementation:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\View;  

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider  
{  
    public function boot()…