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The backend piece — a debounced, rate-limited JSON search endpoint — stays the same regardless of which frontend autocomplete widget consumes it, and that endpoint is the part actually worth getting right.
The four pieces of a real CRUD resource — listing with search and pagination, image-handled create/update, and safe delete — assembled into one practical, version-agnostic walkthrough.
A search or filter form where every field is optional usually ends up as a wall of if statements around a query — when() folds each one into a single fluent chain instead.
By default Laravel pagination links drop your filter/sort query params on page 2+. Here is how to keep them with appends() or withQueryString().
