framework: Laravel won't print double curly brackets from the template or from Controller if I render a view after trying to print

• Laravel Version: 5.3.6
• PHP Version: 7.0.8
• Database Driver & Version: MySql

Description:

I am building a blog where I can enter php, html and javascript code, even blade template code. I found that Laravel won’t print double curly brackets like these {{ }} from the blade template. or the Controller if I render the template after printing.

So to test if was php causing trouble and not printing curly brackets I did this in my Controller:

        echo 'test {{ test }}';
        dd();

and test {{ test }} got printed. I then removed the dd(); so the code now looked like this:

        echo 'test {{ test }}';
        $post = Post::where('id', $id)->first();
        return view('admin.posts.edit')->withPost($post);

Now only ‘test test’ got printed without curly bracekts. I then commented out

//return view('admin.posts.edit')->withPost($post);

and now test {{ test }} got printed again.

It’s obvious that Laravel is preventing me from printing curly brackets and is removing them. I need to be able to print them from the blade template. Why isn’t it working and how to solve this?

Steps To Reproduce:

inside a function in Controller do this

echo 'test {{ test }}';
return view('someview');

only ‘test test’ will be printed, remove the return view and test {{ test }} gets printed