Including SVG contents in Laravel 5 Blade template

Similar to the accepted answer but a bit cleaner (imo).

Use the laravel directive to extend blade, like so (in your App Service Provider, as outlined here):

    \Blade::directive('svg', function($arguments) {
        // Funky madness to accept multiple arguments into the directive
        list($path, $class) = array_pad(explode(',', trim($arguments, "() ")), 2, '');
        $path = trim($path, "' ");
        $class = trim($class, "' ");

        // Create the dom document as per the other answers
        $svg = new \DOMDocument();
        $svg->load(public_path($path));
        $svg->documentElement->setAttribute("class", $class);
        $output = $svg->saveXML($svg->documentElement);

        return $output;
    });

Then use it in your blade like so:

        <div class="Login__image Login__cloud">
            @svg('cloud.svg', 'Cloud')
        </div>