title: Laravel: What's the advantage of using the asset method in blade pages?
body: <p>In some laravel examples I've seen assets being called like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="{{ asset('icons/favicon-32x32.png') }}" sizes="32x32"&gt;
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  <p>What is the advantage of using that method as opposed to doing this?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="icons/favicon-32x32.png" sizes="32x32"&gt;
  </code></pre>