Livewire is a full-stack framework for Laravel framework that makes building dynamic interfaces simple, without leaving the comfort of Laravel. if you are using livewire with laravel then you don’t worry about writing jquery ajax code, livewire will help to write very simple way jquery ajax code using php. without page refresh laravel validation will works, form will submit etc.
Here, i will give you very simple example to creating contact form with name and email and i will store that data to database without refresh page and too many lines of code in blade file. we will use only livewire/livewire package.
So, let’s follow bellow step and you will get bellow layout:
Step 1 : Install Laravel 7
first of all we need to get fresh Laravel 7 version application using bellow command, So open your terminal OR command prompt and run bellow command:
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog
Step 2 : Create Migration and Model
Here, we need create database migration for files table and also we will create model for files table.
php artisan make:migration create_contacts_table
Migration:
php artisan migrate
now we will create Contact model by using following command:
php artisan make:model Contact
App/Contact.php
Step 3: Install Livewire
now in this step, we will simply install livewire to our laravel 7 application using bellow command:
composer require livewire/livewire
Step 4: Create Component
Now here we will create livewire component using their command. so run bellow command to create contact us form component.
php artisan make:livewire contact-form
Now they created fies on both path:
app/Http/Livewire/ContactForm.phpresources/views/livewire/contact-form.blade.php
Now both file we will update as bellow for our contact us form.
Step 5: Create Route
now we will create one route for calling our example, so let’s add new route to web.php file as bellow:
routes/web.php
Route::get('/form', function () { return view('form');});
Step 6: Create View File
here, we will create blade file for call form route. in this file we will use @livewireStyles, @livewireScripts and @livewire(‘contact-form’). so let’s add it.
Now you can run using bellow command:
php artisan serve