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Hi I'm building an application where I will have a paginated table of information. I want to be able to instantly search this table for specific records, without reloading the page, as well as possibly being able to delete and edit records.
My question is, whats the best approach with Laravel 5.5 to complete this?
Should I use Datatables?
Should I just write it myself in jQuery? Seems a bit old and clunky doing ajax calls based on each keystroke in a search field?
Should I look into VueJS (I haven't used it yet only read about it) would this be the best fit?
A package maybe type ahead or something similar to allow easier ux when searching huge amounts of data?
Using Laravel 5.5 how would you create a table of data and manage crud/bread functionality?
I have done this with Vue js and it is very very easy.
I can give you my complete package. It's called DataGrid.
In the meantime look at this: https://vuejs.org/v2/examples/grid-component.html
and it's really just a matter of fetching the data from the server.
Better use client side Datatables , it will reduce load on servers
Agree with datatables approach, including server side, as mentioned.
No need to reinvent the wheel. And no need to get deeper into Vue if you don't need it.
Here's a link of demo we recently made https://github.com/LaravelDaily/Laravel-Datatables-Demo
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