Laravel Vue Datatable

A Vue.js datatable component for Laravel that works with Bootstrap.

Note: this package will be moving to tailwind in the near future.

Requirements

• Vue.js 2.x
• Laravel 5.x
• Bootstrap 4 (Optional)

This package makes use of an optional default component, the Laravel Vue Pagination component created by gilbitron. If you need a pagination component for other areas of your website and you are using a Laravel API & Bootstrap, i highly suggest using this flexible component.

Demo & Docs

See https://jamesdordoy.github.io/laravel-vue-datatable/

Example

Laravel Package Installation

See details https://github.com/jamesdordoy/Laravel-Vue-Datatable_Laravel-Package

Note: I am looking for co-maintainers!

If anyone has some experiance with JavaScript, Vue or PHP & Laravel i would love to get some help maintaining this package. Testing and CI is a major concern at the moment and given time, i'd much prefer to maintain this package using TypeScript.

Please email me if you would like to help maintain the package.

Component Installation

npm install laravel-vue-datatable

or

yarn add laravel-vue-datatable

Register the Plugin

import DataTable from 'laravel-vue-datatable';

Vue.use(DataTable);

Basic Example

UserDatatable.vue

<data-table
    :columns="columns"
    url="http://example.test/example">
</data-table>

export default {
    data() {
        return {
            columns: [
                {
                    label: 'ID',
                    name: 'id',
                    orderable: true,
                },
                {
                    label: 'Name',
                    name: 'name',
                    orderable: true,
                },
                {
                    label: 'Email',
                    name: 'email',
                    orderable: true,
                },
            ]
        }
    },
}

Reloading the table manually

If updates have been made to your dataset and you need to reload the table, you can attach a ref to the table. Once the Vue.JS reference is attached, you are able to access the underlining methods of the component including the getData method.

Alternatively, if you have custom filters applied and you would prefered they are retained, any adjustment to the url the table uses as a prop will reload the table.

API

Datatable Props

Name	Type	Default	Description
url	String	"/"	The JSON url
columns	Array	[]	The table columns
order-by	String	"id"	(optional) The default column to order your data by
order-dir	String	"asc"	(optional) The default order by direction
per-page	Array	['10','25','50']	(optional) Amount to be displayed
theme	String	"light"	(optional) Must be dark or light
debounce-delay	Number	0	(optional) Adds a debounce delay to the get request when searching
classes	Object	See Below	(optional) Table classes
translate	Object	{ nextButton: 'Next', previousButton: 'Previous', placeholderSearch: 'Search Table'}	(optional) used to overwrite the default pagination button text and search input placeholder
pagination	Object	{}	(optional) props for gilbitron/laravel-vue-pagination
add-filters-to-url	Boolean	false	(optional) Will adjust the current url to keep track of used filters and will also store them in local storage.
headers	Object	{}	Additional headers to pass route e.g. bearer token

Default Classes

{
    "table-container": {
        "table-responsive": true,
    },
    "table": {
        "table": true,
        "table-striped": true,
        "table-dark": true,
    },
    "t-head": {

    },
    "t-body": {
        
    },
    "t-head-tr": {

    },
    "t-body-tr": {
        
    },
    "td": {

    },
    "th": {
        
    },
}

Column Props

Name	Type	Default	Description
label	String	""	The table column label to be displayed as the column heading
name	String	""	The table column header name. You can also access nested properties e.g. a query using a with relationship using the dot notation.
columnName	String	""	(optional) The backend column name if the provided data keys do not match with the backend database. It may also be required to prefix the column name with the table name e.g. users.name to avoid issues with Integrity constraint violation when joining tables
width	Number	0	(optional) The table column width
orderable	Boolean	false	(optional) Is the column orderable in the datatable
component	Component	null	(optional) A dynamic component that can be injected
event	String	""	(optional) Event type to parse to the component e.g. click, focus etc.
handler	Function	() => {}	(optional) Function to parse for the event handler
classes	Object	{}	(optional) Component classes to parse
meta	Object	{}	(optional) Additional values that are parsed to component

Further Examples

See https://jamesdordoy.github.io/laravel-vue-datatable/ for more examples.

Development

To work on the package locally or to add to the documentation, run the following command:

npm run serve

To deploy documentation to GitHub under a PR. Please run the following after uncommenting the outputDir line in the vue.config.js file:

npm run build-docs

To run the tests:

npm run test