Show User Data in Header

In this short lesson, instead of hard-coded Hi, user, let's show the actual logged-in user.

To show the user, we will use the same concept of sharing data by adding it to the HandleInertiaRequests Middleware. Let's pass only the name and email.

app/Http/Middleware/HandleInertiaRequests.php:

class HandleInertiaRequests extends Middleware
{
    // ...
 
    public function share(Request $request): array
    {
        return array_merge(parent::share($request), [
            'flash' => [
                'message' => fn () => $request->session()->get('message')
            ],
            'user' => [ 
                'name' => $request->user()?->name,
                'email' => $request->user()?->email,
            ], 
        ]);
    }
}

Now, we can access these values using...