Hi,

Thanks for this video, yet another fabulous resource on Laracasts. I'm a little confused with the double render() call.

I've created a simple route in web.php as follows:

Route::get('/text-input', function () {
    $input = \App\Components\TextInput::make(name: 'email')
        ->label('Email Address');

    return view('demo', [
        'input' => $input,
    ]);
});

Then, in the demo.blade.php file this view calls, I simply echo my component:

{{ $input }}

But in my TextInput object, my implementation of toHtml() simply returns the view as returned by my render() method, I'm NOT calling render() on it:

public function toHtml()
{
    return $this->render();
}

The echo {{ }} seems to accept a view object and render it, and doesn't need an string.

So I don't need to call the double render render()->render() as in the tutorial, just return the view from my render() without having to render it to a string.

I'm on the latest version of Laravel 12, has something perhaps changed since the tutorial was written, or am I missing something?

TIA :wq

Rendering Components