hi guys,

I have been building some app-sites with Laravel and find myself repeatedly in the situation of adding static content pages for documentation, presentation etc. in a manual in-effective way.

Just discovered getgrav.org (by a joomla developer) which seems to be an incredible elegant tool to manage content in Markdown pages. I have been struggling with wordpress for years now and really only want a simple, easy way to display content integrated with my laravel apps - grav seems to provide that functionality for managing and generating content.

Now am thinking about how to integrate grav with laravel? am not an expert on the internals of laravel but think a loose integration through http could be a simple way of integrating?

• install grav independently from laravel
• grav serves content pages through http into laravel
• the content pages served by laravel could contain blade template code
• the content pages are handled as blade templates and can be enriched with dynamic data from larval
• the content is delivered through laravel and therefor in context of laravel
• the result would be rich content pages delivered through laravel as part of the laravel app

advantages

• grav can be maintained as it is

disadvantages

• two repositories (grav content / laravel app)
• eventually two backend once grav gets one

tasks to solve:

• how to load grav content through http and provide is as an layout blade template in laravel
• how to cache to avoid requesting the content with each page view
• how to map grav urls into laravel routes
• ...

Any idea how to approach this? Or any other way of integrating grav into laravel?

cheers cord