What is the difference between Section and Stack in Blade?

Question

We can use a section to define some HTML and then yield that somewhere else.

So why do we have stacks? https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/blade#sta

Answer 1

I might be mistaken, but the difference is not only semantically, but in behaviour as well. With @push you append as many times as needed to a stack, while (by default) you may fill @section only once in your views. In some situations this comes in handy when you need to add content from different locations across your template files or in loops:

index.blade.php:

@extends('master')

...  

@for ($i = 0; $i < 3; $i++)

  @push('test-push')
    
  @endpush

  @section('test-section')
    
  @endsection

@endfor

master.blade.php

    @stack('test-push')
    @yield('test-section')

result: