I found this to be the easiest one. Create a new provider and user the '*'
wildcard to attach it to all views. Works in 5.3 as well :-)
<?php
namespace App\Providers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
class ViewServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
/**
* Bootstrap the application services.
* @return void
*/
public function boot()
{
view()->composer('*', function ($view)
{
$user = request()->user();
$view->with('user', $user);
});
}
/**
* Register the application services.
*
* @return void
*/
public function register()
{
//
}
}