What is Laravel Blade?

Laravel Blade is a simple yet powerful templating engine that is included with Laravel. Unlike other popular PHP templating engines, Blade does not restrict you from using plain PHP code in your views. Blade provides convenient shortcuts for common PHP control structures, such as `if` statements and loops. Blade view files typically use the `.blade.php` file extension and are stored in the `resources/views` directory. The Blade templating engine is commonly used to create dynamic web pages in Laravel applications, simplifying the process of displaying data and structuring the view layer.