In this episode, we finally bring our CSV importer to life on the customer listing page! We start by quickly setting up a basic controller and a route to display a simple paginated list of customers. Once that’s all set and displaying nicely, we drop our (so far, still very empty) Livewire CSV importer component onto the page, just to see where it’ll fit in.
Next, we build a button that will toggle the importer open and closed. We use Livewire events and Alpine.js to coordinate state and show/hide the importer in a nice, reactive way — and chat a bit about why you might want to use Alpine for quick UI toggles versus Livewire for more complex stuff.
We wire up the CSV importer so that it receives the correct model as a prop (in this case, the Customer model namespace), making our component way more flexible and reusable for other types of data down the line.
As a helpful finishing touch, we deal with that pesky "flicker" you might see on initial load before Alpine kicks in, adding x-cloak
and the necessary CSS to keep things looking smooth for your users.
By the end of this episode, our importer pops open and shuts properly, tied to the model we want, and is set up for taking in files next time!