Helper.php

<?php

/*
In my situation I wanted to be able to declare a modal popup from the controller 
and have that popup be pushed into the scripts section of my template.

So I began working on a helper function that would do this for me.

Each of these methods I commented out, definitely work to render a livewire component. The problem I'm struggling with
is that each of these methods also reset the app('view') object

What I finally came up with seems to work for my situation.

*/



if (!function_exists('addJavascriptFile')) {
    /**
     * Add custom javascript file to the page
     *
     * @param string $file
     *
     * @return void
     */
    function addJavascriptFile($file)
    {
        app('view')->startPush('scripts');
        echo '<script src="' . asset($file) . '"></script>'.PHP_EOL;
        app('view')->stopPush();
    }
}

if (!function_exists('addCssFile')) {
    /**
     * Add custom CSS file to the page
     *
     * @param string $file
     *
     * @return void
     */
    function addCssFile($file)
    {
        app('view')->startPush('styles');
        echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="' . asset($file) . '">'.PHP_EOL;
        app('view')->stopPush();
    }
}

if (!function_exists('addCustomSnippets')) {
    /**
     * Add multiple custom snippets to the head by name.
     *
     * @param array $customSnippets
     *
     * @return void
     */
    function addCustomSnippets($customSnippets)
    {
        foreach ($customSnippets as $customSnippet) {
            addCustomSnippet($customSnippet);
        }
    }
}

if (!function_exists('addCustomSnippet')) {
    /**
     * Add single custom snippet to the head by name.
     *
     * @param string $customSnippet
     *
     * @return void
     */
    function addCustomSnippet($customSnippet)
    {
        app('view')->startPush('scripts');
        echo $customSnippet.PHP_EOL;
        app('view')->stopPush();
    }
}

if (!function_exists('addLivewireComponent')) {
    /**
     * Add Livewire component to the script stack
     *
     * @param string $component
     * @param array $params
     *
     * @return void
     */
    function addLivewireComponent($component, $params = [])
    {
        $scripts = app('view')->yieldPushContent('scripts');
        $html = \Livewire\Livewire::mount($component, $params);

        app('view')->startPush('scripts');
            echo $html.PHP_EOL;
            echo $scripts.PHP_EOL;
        app('view')->stopPush();
    }
}