How to serve static HTML with Laravel

Step 1

• Create a Laravel application.

laravel new static-site

Step 2

• Create a pages folder in the resources directory.

Step 3

• Create HTML files in the newly created pages folder.

• You can get the HTML file with its content using PHP’s inbuilt file_get_contents().

• Pass the path to the file_get_contents() function to get the file. This can then be returned like so:

return file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/../resources/pages/first-post.html');

This example assumes you’re working in your routes/web.php file. The path would be different should you be working in a controller.

Step 4

• This HTML content can also be passed in as a variable to another view.

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome')->with('post', file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/../resources/pages/first-post.html'));
});

• The ＄post variable can then be printed unescaped in the view, like this:

{!! $post !!}}