How to correctly return a 404 code along with a view?

Question

Laravel

We have a controller and in it a method for the page.
In the absence of certain data, it is necessary to return a 404 error along with a pre-made view.
At the moment, the view just returns, without the 404 header.
The code:

if (is_null($page)) {
    // Было так
    return view('system.errors.404');
    // Теперь так, однако хедеры не пишутся и возвращается 200 статус
    return response()->view('system.errors.404', [], 404);
}

Answer 1

I don’t know what you can’t do there, but you don’t need to breed shit code with helpers and other heresy.
Everything is done in one line.

Answer 2

I didn’t find anything sensible in the manuals, so I wrote a small helper, an analogue of abort () for 404 status.

function abort404 ($code = 404, $message = '', array $headers = []) {
    header(' ', true, $code);
    return app()->abort($code, $message, $headers);
}

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