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When building applications using Inertia, each page in your application typically has its own controller / route and a corresponding JavaScript component. This allows you to retrieve just the data necessary for that page - no API required. In addition, all of the data needed for the page can be retrieved before the page is ever rendered by the browser, eliminating the need for displaying “loading” states when users visit your application.

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Creating Pages

Inertia pages are simply JavaScript components. If you have ever written a Vue, React, or Svelte component, you will feel right at home. As you can see in the example below, pages receive data from your application’s controllers as props. 
<script setup>
import Layout from "./Layout";
import { Head } from "@inertiajs/vue3";

defineProps({ user: Object });
</script>

<template>
  <Layout>
    <Head title="Welcome" />
    <h1>Welcome</h1>
    <p>Hello {{ user.name }}, welcome to your first Inertia app!</p>
  </Layout>
</template>

use Inertia\Inertia;

class UserController extends Controller
{
    public function show(User $user)
    {
        return Inertia::render('User/Show', [
            'user' => $user
        ]);
    }
}
If you attempt to render a page that does not exist, the response will typically be a blank screen. To prevent this, you may set the inertia.ensure_pages_exist configuration option to true. The Laravel adapter will then throw an Inertia\ComponentNotFoundException when a page cannot be found.

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Layouts

Most applications share common UI elements across pages. Inertia provides persistent layouts that survive page navigations, along with layout props for passing dynamic data between pages and their layouts. Visit the layouts documentation to learn more.