Explain Custom Blade components in Laravel with code examples.

Custom Blade components provide reusable UI elements: **Creating Component:**

php artisan make:component Alert

**Component Class (app/View/Components/Alert.php):**

class Alert extends Component {
    public $type;
    public $message;
    
    public function __construct($type = "info", $message = "") {
        $this->type = $type;
        $this->message = $message;
    }
    
    public function render() {
        return view("components.alert");
    }
}

**Component Template (resources/views/components/alert.blade.php):**

    {{ ucfirst($type) }}!
    {{ $message ?? $slot }}

**Using Component:**

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