Ship a compliant cookie banner in Laravel and actually gate analytics and marketing scripts on the user's choice, using the wirecookies-saved event and a plain localStorage object as the consent gate.
Wirecookies is a Laravel package which handles the cookies consent for you. It gives you a consent banner and a preferences modal from a single Blade tag, and, more usefully, it hands you a plain localStorage object and a browser event you can use as the gate for your analytics and marketing scripts. This article is built around that gate, not around how the banner looks.
One thing to get out of the way first, because it will bite you otherwise: Wirecookies ships no JavaScript of its own and uses wiremodal's JS to open the preferences modal. If you skip the wiremodal import in the install steps, the banner still shows and Accept all / Reject all still work, but the Configure button and the floating re-open button silently do nothing, with no error in the console. Do the JS step.
How to install
Pull the package in with Composer. The service provider is auto-discovered, so there is nothing to register.
