How to disable Laravel Scout for Nova Resources

By default, if Nova detects you're using Laravel Scout on a model (with the Searchable trait), it'll use this internally to perform searches.

There are a couple of reasons you might not want this to happen:

1. You don't want to use up search quota in the service you're using (in my case, Algolia)
2. In a development environment, you may not have everything indexed, so using Nova will depend on these items being within an index

How to disable Scout in Nova¶

It's a pretty quick fix! Just add the usesScout method to the Nova resource you want to control Scout for, and return false.

class Course extends Resource
{
    public static $search = [
        'id', 'title', 'slug'
    ];
    
    public static function usesScout()
    {
        return false;
    }
    
    //...
}

And that's it! Laravel Scout will now be disabled for that resource, and the search results will be performed directly from your database.