How to create widget in laravel?

Question

Laravel

Hello everyone, for about 3 days I have been studying laravel for the first two days I read the documentation on the third day I started creating a blog, everything went fine until I needed to move the right panel of the site to a separate file where the output of the latest articles and categories is stored, I used to write on yii2 there such a problem was solved with the help of widgets in laravel there are none, what to do? I tried using ViewComposer but I don't know how to pass queries like $categories = Category::all();
constantly throws an error $categories call to undefined Thanks in advance everyone!

Answer 1

https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/views#sharing-data-wi...