particle-academy/fancy-seo

Server-rendered SEO + crawlability for Laravel + Inertia — per-route meta / Open Graph / Twitter / JSON-LD on the first byte, dynamic sitemap.xml / robots.txt / llms.txt, and per-page Markdown. The PHP baseline that pairs with @particle-academy/fancy-inertia's <Seo>.

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Why

A Fancy app is an Inertia + React SPA: the browser fills it in after the JavaScript runs. Beautiful for humans — and invisible to everyone who matters for reach. A search crawler, a social-card scraper, or an LLM bot that fetches your URL sees an empty <div id="app"></div> on the first byte, so your pages don't rank, don't preview as rich cards, and read as blank to the models that increasingly send you traffic. The usual fixes mean either abandoning the SPA or hand-rolling per-route meta in Blade and keeping it in sync with the client forever. fancy-seo closes the gap on the server: it computes the per-route head and renders it into the first byte, so the same app is fully crawlable, shares as a rich card, and is legible to LLMs — without giving up the SPA.

What

A small, fluent Laravel package. The FancySeo facade resolves a head per request — defaults([...]) for site-wide values, route('name', fn ($req) => [...]) for per-route meta, resolveUsing(fn) for a dynamic fallback, for([...]) to set it inline from a controller, and noindexRoutes(['admin/*']) to keep private routes out of the index. A single Blade component, <x-fancy-seo::head />, renders <title>, description, canonical, robots, the full Open Graph + Twitter set, and one <script type="application/ld+json"> per JSON-LD node. It also serves a dynamic sitemap.xml (->sitemap(fn)), robots.txt, and llms.txt (->llms(fn)), plus an optional per-page Markdown alternate (->markdownUsing(fn)). It is the PHP baseline that pairs with @particle-academy/fancy-inertia's client <Seo> component — the server renders the default head, <Seo> overrides it per page via Inertia's head-key dedupe, so you get exactly one canonical tag, never two.

How

Install with composer require particle-academy/fancy-seo; Laravel auto-discovers the provider + facade. Drop the head into your root Blade <head>: <x-fancy-seo::head /> (above @vite and @inertiaHead). Then teach it your routes in a service provider:

FancySeo::defaults(['site_name' => 'Fancy UI', 'image' => '/og/default.png'])->route('packages.show', fn ($req) => ['title' => $req->route('package').' — Fancy UI', 'canonical' => $req->url()])->noindexRoutes(['admin/*', 'login']);

. Verify the meta is in the raw HTML (not injected after hydration): curl -s https://your.app | grep -i 'og:\|canonical\|ld+json'. For the meta to land on the very first byte, turn on SSR (see the SSR page); without it, the fancy-seo Blade baseline is still your crawler floor.

API surface

This package renders no UI surface — it is the hooks / APIs / server-side tooling described above.

Renders no UI. A supporting package with no rendered components, so there are no live demos — reach for the README + Changelog for the full reference, and the Issues link to file feedback.

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particle-academy/fancy-seo

Server-rendered SEO + crawlability for Laravel + Inertia apps.

An Inertia/React SPA applies per-page <Head> meta after hydration — so a crawler, social scraper, or LLM bot that hits a URL sees only the bare root view on the first byte. fancy-seo computes the per-route head (title, description, canonical, Open Graph, Twitter, JSON-LD) on the server and renders it into the first byte, plus a dynamic sitemap.xml / robots.txt / llms.txt and an optional per-page Markdown variant.

It's the PHP baseline that pairs with @particle-academy/fancy-inertia/seo's client <Seo> component: the package renders the default head; <Seo> overrides it per page via Inertia's head-key dedupe.

Install

composer require particle-academy/fancy-seo

Laravel auto-discovers the service provider + FancySeo facade. Publish the config if you want to tune it:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=fancy-seo-config

Wire it up

1. Drop the head component into your root Blade template (e.g. app.blade.php), inside <head>:

<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

    <x-fancy-seo::head />

    @vite(['resources/js/app.tsx'])
    @inertiaHead
</head>

That renders <title>, description, canonical, robots, the full Open Graph + Twitter set, the llms.txt alternate link, and one <script type="application/ld+json"> per JSON-LD node — all from the resolved per-route payload.

2. Register defaults + per-route SEO from a service provider:

use FancySeo\Facades\FancySeo;
use FancySeo\JsonLd;

FancySeo::defaults([
    'site_name' => 'Fancy UI',
    'image' => '/og/default.png',
    'twitterSite' => '@particleacademy',
    'jsonLd' => [
        JsonLd::website('Fancy UI', url('/'), searchUrlTemplate: url('/search?q={search_term_string}')),
        JsonLd::softwareApplication('Fancy UI', url('/'), ['applicationCategory' => 'DeveloperApplication', 'operatingSystem' => 'Web', 'price' => '0']),
    ],
]);

FancySeo::route('packages.show', fn (array $params) => [
    'title' => "{$params['package']} — Fancy UI",
    'jsonLd' => [JsonLd::softwareSourceCode($params['package'], url("/packages/{$params['package']}"), "https://github.com/Particle-Academy/{$params['package']}", ['programmingLanguage' => 'TypeScript'])],
]);

FancySeo::noindexRoutes(['admin.*', 'auth.*']);

A controller can also set the payload for the current request:

FancySeo::for(['title' => $post->title, 'description' => $post->excerpt, 'type' => 'article']);

Precedence: defaults() → per-route resolver → resolveUsing() → for(). jsonLd accumulates across layers; everything else overrides.

Discovery endpoints

Auto-registered (toggle each in config/fancy-seo.php):

Route	What
`/sitemap.xml`	every URL you register via `FancySeo::sitemap(...)` — paths in `robots_txt.disallow` are auto-excluded (a sitemap must never advertise a blocked path)
`/robots.txt`	crawl policy — welcomes LLM bots (each gets its own group with the disallow set re-applied, so a private path can't leak), references the sitemap
`/llms.txt`, `/llms-full.txt`	the llmstxt.org Markdown index you register via `FancySeo::llms(...)`
`/.well-known/security.txt`	RFC 9116 (only when a contact is configured)
`/humans.txt`	colophon
`/{path}.md`	per-page raw Markdown (opt-in) via `FancySeo::markdownUsing(...)`

Well-known files vs. SEO meta. fancy-seo's job is the per-route SEO <head> + JSON-LD + the dynamic sitemap data. For richer, leak-proof management of the files — robots / sitemap / security / humans / llms / AGENTS with an admin-editable model and a protect() rail that keeps private paths disallowed for every bot group — pair it with particle-academy/fancy-x-files: turn off the routes you delegate (config/fancy-seo.php → routes) and let x-files own them, feeding it FancySeo::sitemapUrls() for a dynamic, leak-safe sitemap. That is the recommended pairing — fancy-seo for meta, x-files for files.

FancySeo::sitemap(function ($map) {
    $map->add('/', '1.0', 'daily');
    foreach (Package::all() as $pkg) {
        $map->add("packages/{$pkg->slug}", '0.8');
    }
});

FancySeo::llms(fn (FancySeo $seo) => view('seo.llms')->render());

FancySeo::markdownUsing(fn (string $path) => MarkdownContent::for($path)); // null → 404

JSON-LD builders

FancySeo\JsonLd mirrors @particle-academy/fancy-inertia/seo's builders — website, organization, softwareApplication, softwareSourceCode, article, breadcrumbList, faqPage, howTo, collectionPage. Each returns a plain array with the @context/@type set; pass them to defaults() / route() / for().

howTo() and faqPage() no longer render as Google rich results, but the markup still strengthens machine understanding + AI answers — emit them only on pages whose visible content genuinely is an ordered how-to / Q&A.

Social images

Set richer Open Graph / Twitter card metadata via the resolved payload (or the image_alt / image_width / image_height / image_type config defaults):

FancySeo::for([
    'image' => '/og/react-fancy.png',
    'imageAlt' => 'react-fancy — Tailwind v4 React primitives',
    'imageWidth' => 1200,
    'imageHeight' => 630,
    'imageType' => 'image/png',
]);

The head component emits og:image:alt|width|height|type + twitter:image:alt. Declaring the real card dimensions (1200×630) + MIME type helps scrapers like LinkedIn pick the large-card layout instead of falling back to a small square.

Content Security Policy

Under a strict script-src 'nonce-…' CSP, pass the nonce so the inline JSON-LD isn't dropped: <x-fancy-seo::head :nonce="$cspNonce" /> (or set a static fancy-seo.csp_nonce in config).

Validate in CI

php artisan fancy-seo:validate lints every parameter-less, named GET route the way <x-fancy-seo::head> renders it — missing/duplicate titles, thin or over-long descriptions, missing/relative canonicals, noindex leaks, and malformed JSON-LD. Use --format=json|junit for machine output and --strict to fail on warnings:

- run: php artisan fancy-seo:validate --format=junit --strict

Roadmap

Not yet shipped (open an issue if you need them sooner):

hreflang locale clusters + reciprocal x-default (for multilingual sites).
Sitemap index / chunking for sites above the 50k-URL per-file limit.

License

MIT

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