---
title: "Blade directive — Likes for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "The @liked conditional renders the right heart state for the current or an explicit actor and reaction type."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/likes-for-laravel/blade-directive
language: en
---

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# Blade directive

The @liked conditional renders the right like-button state without glue code:

```blade
@liked($post)
    <x-icon name="heart-filled" />
@else
    <x-icon name="heart" />
@endliked
```

- @liked($model) — uses the resolved actor.
- @liked($model, $actor) — honours an explicit actor.
- @liked($model, $actor, 'love') — honours a reaction type; without one, default\_reaction is checked.

## Guest-visible pages

Without an explicit actor — or with a null one — the directive resolves one like every read (actor\_resolver, else auth()->user()). A guest gets the @else branch, never an exception, so it is safe on pages guests can see:

```blade
{{-- a guest gets the @else branch, never an exception --}}
@liked($post)
    <button>Unlike</button>
@else
    <button>Like</button>
@endliked

{{-- or pass an actor you already hold --}}
@liked($post, $team, 'love')
    <span>Your team loves this</span>
@endliked
```

The directive is only registered if your app doesn’t already define a @liked directive. For feeds, prefer withLikedState() — it hydrates the same state for every row in one query.

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