Calling a DELETE request on a link?

• Create a route

Route::delete('articles/{id}', [
    'as' => 'delete_article_path', 
    'uses' => 'ArticlesController@destroy'
]);

• Hit the route

    <a href="{!! route('delete_article_path') !!}"> Delete Article </a> 

• implement the destroy() method in the ArticlesController

public function destroy($id)
{
    // find the article you want to delete by ID
    $article = Article::find($id);
    $articleStatus = $article->delete();
    // if delete failed 
    if (!$articleStatus)
    {
        return view('articles'); // return a view with a failed flash message
    }
    // if the article was deleted successfully
    return view('articles'); // return a view with a success flash message
}

There was a video where Jeffrey said that it's better to do delete requests through a form instead of a link (I think it has something to do with CSRF)

Thank you very much for your response, this will help me a lot now and in the future!