In this episode, we focus on building a simple but effective confirmation page that users see once they've successfully booked an appointment. We start by creating a new controller and making sure it can fetch and render appointment details based on a UUID. Something we didn't have yet was an API resource to properly format and send our appointment data, so we quickly put that together too, ensuring that things like the date, service, employee, and times are neatly prepared for the frontend.
On the Vue side, we create a fresh confirmation.vue
file, pull in our base layout for consistency, and set up props to receive the appointment details. After confirming all the data shows up as expected, we borrow some styles and markup from our checkout page to speed things up. The end result is a confirmation page that thanks the user and gives them all the details about what they've booked—date, time, employee, service, and more—all presented in a clean, readable format.
We also troubleshoot a couple of minor issues along the way (like making sure the employee ID flows through the booking process), ensuring that the whole booking and confirmation flow feels seamless for the user. Now, when someone books an appointment, they get instantly redirected to this new confirmation page with all the info they need. In the next episode, we'll take things further by looking at how appointments can be cancelled.