README

Like and reaction buttons with counts. Built for Laravel with support for Livewire, Blade, and Alpine.js.

Installation

composer require mrshanebarron/likes

The service provider will be auto-discovered. If you need to register it manually:

// config/app.php
'providers' => [
    // ...
    MrShaneBarron\Likes/Reactions\Likes/ReactionsServiceProvider::class,
];

Usage

Livewire Component

<livewire:ld-likes />

Blade Component

<x-ld-likes />

With Props

<x-ld-likes
    :count="0"
    :liked="false"
    :reactions="[]"
    :showCount="true"
/>

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`count`	number	`0`	Current like count
`liked`	boolean	`false`	Whether user has liked
`reactions`	array	`[]`	Available reaction types
`showCount`	boolean	`true`	Show like count

Configuration

Publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ld-likes-config

This will create a config/ld-likes.php file where you can customize default values.

Customization

Publishing Views

Customize the component appearance by publishing the views:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ld-likes-views

Views will be published to resources/views/vendor/ld-likes/.

Styling

The component uses Tailwind CSS classes by default. You can customize styles by:

Publishing views and modifying the Blade templates
Using the class attribute to add custom classes
Overriding default styles in your CSS

<x-ld-likes class="custom-class" />

Events

The component dispatches Livewire events you can listen to:

Event	Payload	Description
`likes:updated`	Component data	Fired when state changes
`likes:initialized`	Initial data	Fired on component mount

// In your Livewire component
protected $listeners = ['likes:updated' => 'handleUpdate'];

public function handleUpdate($data)
{
    // Handle the update
}

Alpine.js Integration

The component works seamlessly with Alpine.js:

<div x-data="{ ' }} selected: null {{ ' }">
    <x-ld-likes x-model="selected" />
    <p x-text="selected"></p>
</div>

Requirements

PHP 8.1+
Laravel 10.x, 11.x, or 12.x
Livewire 3.x
Tailwind CSS 3.x (optional, for default styling)

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for recent changes.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover a security vulnerability, please email shane@sbarron.com instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

mrshanebarron / likes

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