Prepopulating Data to a Form using Laravel, Inertiajs, and VueJS

When working with Laravel, Inertiajs, and VueJS, you may come across scenarios where you need to prepopulate data to a form. This can be useful when editing a record or prefilling certain fields based on some criteria.

In order to prepopulate data to a form, you can follow these steps:

Step 1: Fetch Data from Laravel Controller

First, you need to fetch the data from your Laravel controller. You can retrieve the data from the database or any other source and pass it to your Inertiajs page.

Step 2: Pass Data to Vue Component

Next, pass the data from your Inertiajs page to your Vue component. You can use props to do this. Simply pass the data as a prop to your Vue component.

Step 3: Populate Form Fields

Finally, in your Vue component, you can use the passed data to prepopulate the form fields. You can bind the data to the input fields using v-model or directly set the value attribute of the input field.

Example:

    <template>
      <div>
        <input type="text" v-model="formData.name" />
        <input type="email" v-model="formData.email" />
        <button @click="submitForm">Submit</button>
      </div>
    </template>

    <script>
      export default {
        props: {
          initialData: Object
        },
        data() {
          return {
            formData: {
              name: this.initialData.name || '',
              email: this.initialData.email || ''
            }
          }
        },
        methods: {
          submitForm() {
            // Submit form logic
          }
        }
      }
    </script>
  

By following these steps, you can easily prepopulate data to a form using Laravel, Inertiajs, and VueJS. This can help enhance the user experience and make your forms more user-friendly.

Feel free to customize the example code above to fit your specific requirements and use cases.