---
title: "Distributed Tracing"
description: "Learn how to connect backend and frontend transactions."
url: https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/php/guides/laravel/tracing/distributed-tracing/
---
# Distributed Tracing | Sentry for Laravel
If you're also using Tracing for [JavaScript](https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/tracing.md), you can use a helper function to continue the trace and propagate the trace context started from your backend in order to enable [Distributed Tracing](https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/tracing/trace-propagation.md). (The trace context contains additional trace-related data that is used for trace-based sampling.) Add the following line to your blade template rendering the ` ` of your page:
`app.blade.php`
```php