What is the best way to build form in Laravel 5.4?

You will need to pull in this package first:

https://laravelcollective.com/docs/5.2/html

Then the above will work properly.

PS. The Form close tag should be either this:

{!! Form::close() !!}

Or this:

{{ Form::close() }}

The former should be fine for this though.

You need to install laravelcollective for laravel 5.4 ... check this link for more detail

http://stackoverflow.com/a/41845114

Well, the above is not official part of Laravel 5.4, I would like to use something that is official and is maintained.

@Tachi You syntax you’re using above was removed in an earlier version of Laravel. It was kept alive, but as a third-party package: https://github.com/LaravelCollective/html

If you want to use those helpers, you’ll need to install the package. Also, you can just use the normal Blade syntax, i.e.

{{ Form::open(['url' => 'admin/articles/save']) }}
{{ Form::close() }}

A lot of people say not to use this package as it’s an extra, unnecessary abstraction layer. However, I personally use it in nearly all Laravel projects I work on.

There isn't anything official. Collective is maintained.

But, i've seen many people move away from form builders and stick to plain html. Sure, some form builders allow you to be more productive but it's not as descriptive as the html markup itself.

Either go with Collective, see tomi's article or stick with plain HTML.

I don't think it adds anything over using html. I find this much more readable:

<form method="get" action="{{ route('some.named.route') }}">
{!! csrf_field() !!}
<input type="text" name="title" value="{{ old('title') }}" />
</form>

but if you use bootstrap or anything like that, your code gets messy.. and at that point you should try to abstract the fields to a function (blade helper) or something..

Actually why laravel itselft does not provide the form builder.

Answer:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35695949/why-are-form-and-html-helpers-deprecated-in-laravel-5-x

Taylor Otwell decided to remove Form and Html from core components because it something that should be maintained by the community through packages like https://github.com/LaravelCollective/html. Few other components were removed to keep the framework slim.

I would suggest you use LaravelCollective package to handle HTML form builder as it well maintained so far. If you are not sure how to use it, you read this tutorial to learn step by step from installation to integration

https://www.tutcodex.com/laravel-collective-html-form-builder

I would like to share my package:

https://github.com/netojose/laravel-bootstrap-4-forms

An amazing form generator based on Bootstrap 4 theming