npm package: @starfolksoftware/inertia-table
Description: Inertia.js Front-end Components for Spatie's Laravel Query Builder
Author: Faruk Nasir
Latest version: 2.5.1

# Inertia.js Tables for Laravel Query Builder

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## Features

* Auto-fill: auto generates `thead` and `tbody` with support for custom cells
* Global Search
* Search per field
* Select filters
* Toggle columns
* Sort columns
* Pagination (support for Eloquent/API Resource/Simple/Cursor)
* Automatically updates the query string (by using [Inertia's replace](https://inertiajs.com/manual-visits#browser-history) feature)

## Compatibility

* [Vue 3](https://v3.vuejs.org/guide/installation.html)
* [Laravel 9](https://laravel.com/)
* [Inertia.js](https://inertiajs.com/)
* [Tailwind CSS v3](https://tailwindcss.com/) + [Forms plugin](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-forms)
* PHP 8.0+

**Note**: There is currently an [issue](https://github.com/starfolksoftware/inertia-table/issues/69) with using this package with Vite!

## Installation

You need to install both the server-side package and the client-side package. Note that this package is only compatible with Laravel 9, Vue 3.0, and requires the Tailwind Forms plugin.

### Server-side installation (Laravel)

You can install the package via composer:

```bash
composer require starfolksoftware/inertia-table
```

The package will automatically register the Service Provider which provides a `table` method you can use on an Interia Response.

#### Search fields

With the `searchInput` method, you can specify which attributes are searchable. Search queries are passed to the URL query as a `filter`. This integrates seamlessly with the [filtering feature](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v5/features/filtering) of the Laravel Query Builder package.


Though it's enough to pass in the column key, you may specify a custom label and default value.

```php
use InertiaTable\InertiaTable;

Inertia::render('Page/Index')->table(function (InertiaTable $table) {
    $table->searchInput('name');

    $table->searchInput(
        key: 'framework',
        label: 'Find your framework',
        defaultValue: 'Laravel'
    );
});
```

#### Select Filters

Select Filters are similar to search fields but use a `select` element instead of an `input` element. This way, you can present the user a predefined set of options. Under the hood, this uses the same filtering feature of the Laravel Query Builder package.

The `selectFilter` method requires two arguments: the key, and a key-value array with the options.

```php
Inertia::render('Page/Index')->table(function (InertiaTable $table) {
    $table->selectFilter('language_code', [
        'en' => 'Engels',
        'nl' => 'Nederlands',
    ]);
});
```

The `selectFilter` will, by default, add a *no filter* option to the array. You may disable this or specify a custom label for it.

```php
Inertia::render('Page/Index')->table(function (InertiaTable $table) {
    $table->selectFilter(
        key: 'language_code',
        options: $languages,
        label: 'Language',
        defaultValue: 'nl',
        noFilterOption: true,
        noFilterOptionLabel: 'All languages'
    );
});
```

#### Columns

With the `column` method, you can specify which columns you want to be toggleable, sortable, and searchable. You must pass in at least a key or label for each column.

```php
Inertia::render('Page/Index')->table(function (InertiaTable $table) {
    $table->column('name', 'User Name');

    $table->column(
        key: 'name',
        label: 'User Name',
        canBeHidden: true,
        hidden: false,
        sortable: true,
        searchable: true
    );
});
```

The `searchable` option is a shortcut to the `searchInput` method. The example below will essentially call `$table->searchInput('name', 'User Name')`.

#### Global Search

You may enable Global Search with the `withGlobalSearch` method, and optionally specify a placeholder.

```php
Inertia::render('Page/Index')->table(function (InertiaTable $table) {
    $table->withGlobalSearch();

    $table->withGlobalSearch('Search through the data...');
});
```

If you want to enable Global Search for every table by default, you may use the static `defaultGlobalSearch` method, for example, in the `AppServiceProvider` class:

```php
InertiaTable::defaultGlobalSearch();
InertiaTable::defaultGlobalSearch('Default custom placeholder');
InertiaTable::defaultGlobalSearch(false); // disable
```

#### Example controller

```php
<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
use Inertia\Inertia;
use InertiaTable\InertiaTable;
use Spatie\QueryBuilder\AllowedFilter;
use Spatie\QueryBuilder\QueryBuilder;

class UserIndexController
{
    public function __invoke()
    {
        $globalSearch = AllowedFilter::callback('global', function ($query, $value) {
            $query->where(function ($query) use ($value) {
                Collection::wrap($value)->each(function ($value) use ($query) {
                    $query
                        ->orWhere('name', 'LIKE', "%{$value}%")
                        ->orWhere('email', 'LIKE', "%{$value}%");
                });
            });
        });

        $users = QueryBuilder::for(User::class)
            ->defaultSort('name')
            ->allowedSorts(['name', 'email', 'language_code'])
            ->allowedFilters(['name', 'email', 'language_code', $globalSearch])
            ->paginate()
            ->withQueryString();

        return Inertia::render('Users/Index', [
            'users' => $users,
        ])->table(function (InertiaTable $table) {
            $table
              ->withGlobalSearch()
              ->defaultSort('name')
              ->column(key: 'name', searchable: true, sortable: true, canBeHidden: false)
              ->column(key: 'email', searchable: true, sortable: true)
              ->column(key: 'language_code', label: 'Language')
              ->column(label: 'Actions')
              ->selectFilter(key: 'language_code', label: 'Language', options: [
                  'en' => 'English',
                  'nl' => 'Dutch',
              ]);
    }
}
```

### Client-side installation (Inertia)

You can install the package via either `npm` or `yarn`:

```bash
npm install @starfolksoftware/inertia-table --save

yarn add @starfolksoftware/inertia-table
```

Add the repository path to the `content` array of your [Tailwind configuration file](https://tailwindcss.com/docs/content-configuration). This ensures that the styling also works on production builds.

```js
module.exports = {
  content: [
    './node_modules/@starfolksoftware/inertia-table/**/*.{js,vue}',
  ]
}
```

#### Table component

To use the `Table` component and all its related features, you must import the `Table` component and pass the `users` data to the component.

```vue
<script setup>
import { Table } from "@starfolksoftware/inertia-table";

defineProps(["users"])
</script>

<template>
  <Table :resource="users" />
</template>
```

The `resource` property automatically detects the data and additional pagination meta data. You may also pass this manually to the component with the `data` and `meta` properties:

```vue
<template>
  <Table :data="users.data" :meta="users.meta" />
</template>
```

If you want to manually render the table, like in v1 of this package, you may use the `head` and `body` slot. Additionally, you can still use the `meta` property to render the paginator.

```vue
<template>
  <Table :meta="users">
    <template #head>
      <tr>
        <th>User</th>
      </tr>
    </template>

    <template #body>
      <tr
        v-for="(user, key) in users.data"
        :key="key"
      >
        <td>{{ user.name }}</td>
      </tr>
    </template>
  </Table>
</template>
```

The `Table` has some additional properties to tweak its front-end behaviour.

```vue
<template>
  <Table
    :striped="true"
    :prevent-overlapping-requests="false"
    :input-debounce-ms="1000"
    :preserve-scroll="true"
  />
</template>
```

| Property | Description | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| striped | Adds a *striped* layout to the table. | `false` |
| preventOverlappingRequests | Cancels a previous visit on new user input to prevent an inconsistent state. | `true` |
| inputDebounceMs | Number of ms to wait before refreshing the table on user input. | 350 |
| preserveScroll | Configures the [Scroll preservation](https://inertiajs.com/scroll-management#scroll-preservation) behavior. You may also pass `table-top` to this property to scroll to the top of the table on new data. | false |

#### Custom column cells

When using *auto-fill*, you may want to transform the presented data for a specific column while leaving the other columns untouched. For this, you may use a cell template. This example is taken from the [Example Controller](#example-controller) above.

```vue
<template>
  <Table :resource="users">
    <template #cell(actions)="{ item: user }">
      <a :href="`/users/${user.id}/edit`">
        Edit
      </a>
    </template>
  </Table>
</template>
```

#### Multiple tables per page

You may want to use more than one table component per page. Displaying the data is easy, but using features like filtering, sorting, and pagination requires a slightly different setup. For example, by default, the `page` query key is used for paginating the data set, but now you want two different keys for each table. Luckily, this package takes care of that and even provides a helper method to support Spatie's query package. To get this to work, you need to *name* your tables.

Let's take a look at Spatie's `QueryBuilder`. In this example, there's a table for the companies and a table for the users. We name the tables accordingly. So first, call the static `updateQueryBuilderParameters` method to tell the package to use a different set of query parameters. Now, `filter` becomes `companies_filter`, `column` becomes `companies_column`, and so forth. Secondly, change the `pageName` of the database paginator.

```php
InertiaTable::updateQueryBuilderParameters('companies');

$companies = QueryBuilder::for(Company::query())
    ->defaultSort('name')
    ->allowedSorts(['name', 'email'])
    ->allowedFilters(['name', 'email'])
    ->paginate(pageName: 'companiesPage')
    ->withQueryString();

InertiaTable::updateQueryBuilderParameters('users');

$users = QueryBuilder::for(User::query())
    ->defaultSort('name')
    ->allowedSorts(['name', 'email'])
    ->allowedFilters(['name', 'email'])
    ->paginate(pageName: 'usersPage')
    ->withQueryString();
```

Then, we need to apply these two changes to the `InertiaTable` class. There's a `name` and `pageName` method to do so.

```php
return Inertia::render('TwoTables', [
    'companies' => $companies,
    'users'     => $users,
])->table(function (InertiaTable $inertiaTable) {
    $inertiaTable
        ->name('users')
        ->pageName('usersPage')
        ->defaultSort('name')
        ->column(key: 'name', searchable: true)
        ->column(key: 'email', searchable: true);
})->table(function (InertiaTable $inertiaTable) {
    $inertiaTable
        ->name('companies')
        ->pageName('companiesPage')
        ->defaultSort('name')
        ->column(key: 'name', searchable: true)
        ->column(key: 'address', searchable: true);
});
```

Lastly, pass the correct `name` property to each table in the Vue template. Optionally, you may set the `preserve-scroll` property to `table-top`. This makes sure to scroll to the top of the table on new data. For example, when changing the page of the *second* table, you want to scroll to the top of the table, instead of the top of the page.

```vue
<script setup>
import { Table } from "@starfolksoftware/inertia-table";

defineProps(["companies", "users"])
</script>

<template>
  <Table
    :resource="companies"
    name="companies"
    preserve-scroll="table-top"
  />

  <Table
    :resource="users"
    name="users"
    preserve-scroll="table-top"
  />
</template>
```

#### Pagination translations

You can override the default pagination translations with the `setTranslations` method. You can do this in your main JavaScript file:

```js
import { setTranslations } from "@starfolksoftware/inertia-table";

setTranslations({
  next: "Next",
  no_results_found: "No results found",
  of: "of",
  per_page: "per page",
  previous: "Previous",
  results: "results",
  to: "to"
});
```

#### Table.vue slots

The `Table.vue` has several slots that you can use to inject your own implementations.

| Slot | Description |
| --- | --- |
| tableFilter | The location of the button + dropdown to select filters. |
| tableGlobalSearch | The location of the input element that handles the global search. |
| tableReset | The location of the button that resets the table. |
| tableAddSearchRow | The location of the button + dropdown to add additional search rows. |
| tableColumns | The location of the button + dropdown to toggle columns. |
| tableSearchRows | The location of the input elements that handle the additional search rows. |
| tableWrapper | The component that *wraps* the table element, handling overflow, shadow, padding, etc. |
| table | The actual table element. |
| head | The location of the table header. |
| body | The location of the table body.  |
| pagination | The location of the paginator. |

Each slot is provided with props to interact with the parent `Table` component.

```vue
<template>
  <Table>
    <template v-slot:tableGlobalSearch="slotProps">
      <input
        placeholder="Custom Global Search Component..."
        @input="slotProps.onChange($event.target.value)"
      />
    </template>
  </Table>
</template>
```

## Testing

A huge [Laravel Dusk](https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/dusk) E2E test-suite can be found in the `app` directory. Here you'll find a Laravel + Inertia application.

```bash
cd app
cp .env.example .env
composer install
npm install
npm run production
touch database/database.sqlite
php artisan migrate:fresh --seed
php artisan dusk:chrome-driver
php artisan serve
php artisan dusk
```

## Upgrading from v1

### Server-side

* The `addColumn` method has been renamed to `column`.
* The `addFilter` method has been renamed to `selectFilter`.
* The `addSearch` method has been renamed to `searchInput`.
* For all renamed methods, check out the arguments as some have been changed.
* The `addColumns` and `addSearchRows` methods have been removed.
* Global Search is not enabled by default anymore.

### Client-side

* The `InteractsWithQueryBuilder` mixin has been removed and is no longer needed.
* The `Table` component no longer needs the `filters`, `search`, `columns`, and `on-update` properties.
* When using a custom `thead` or `tbody` slot, you need to provide [the styling](https://github.com/starfolksoftware/inertia-table/blob/c8e21649ad372d309eeb62a8f771aa4c7cd0089e/js/Tailwind2/Table.vue#L1) manually.
* When using a custom `thead`, the `showColumn` method has been renamed to `show`.
* The `setTranslations` method is no longer part of the `Pagination` component, but should be imported.
* The templates and logic of the components are not separated anymore. Use slots to inject your own implementations.

## v2.1 Roadmap

* Boolean filters
* Date filters
* Date range filters
* Switch to Vite for the demo app

## Changelog

Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information what has changed recently.

## Contributing

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

## Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email faruk@starfolksoftware.com instead of using the issue tracker.

## Credits

- [Faruk Nasir](https://github.com/frknasir)
- [All Contributors](../../contributors)

## License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.