Laravel Reading Meta Component

Pro

The byline: who, when, and how long it takes.

A Reading Meta built for the TALL stack — Blade, Livewire 3 & 4, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS 4. Server-rendered by default and dark-mode ready. Aura's solid-background and border colours are contrast-tested against WCAG 2.1 AA/UI in CI, in both themes — see what's covered. Drop it in with a single Blade tag: <x-aura::reading-meta>

Try it live in the docs Get Aura Pro

Installation

composer require bluestarsystem/aura-ui

The Reading Meta is part of Aura Pro, installed via your private Composer (Satis) access after purchase. See pricing →

Usage

<x-aura::reading-meta author="Ada Lovelace" published="7 August 2026" datetime="2026-08-07" :words="2200" category="Engineering" />

See the full API, props and live examples in the Reading Meta documentation.

Overview

<x-aura::reading-meta> sits under the title of an article.

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`author`	`string\|null`	`null`	Name, with an avatar if given.
`avatar`	`string\|null`	`null`	Photo URL.
`published`	`string\|null`	`null`	What the reader sees.
`datetime`	`string\|null`	`null`	ISO 8601 for the `<time>` element.
`readingTime`	`int\|null`	`null`	Minutes. Overrides the calculation.
`words`	`int\|null`	`null`	Used to work out the reading time at 220 wpm.
`category`	`string\|null`	`null`	Rendered as a badge.