In this episode, we dive into handling real-time updates for a notes field on each book card. We're building a system where as you type notes for a book, those changes are instantly saved—no extra save button needed! We kick things off by refining the UI to show an editable notes section using a textarea, and hook this up to our data model with Livewire's wire:model
.
You'll see how to use Livewire's lifecycle hooks, particularly the updated<Property>
method, so we can react whenever the notes
field is changed. We walk through setting up that method, and wiring it up so that every time you type, the backend is updated too. There's a little gotcha here: we realize the book isn't set on the form at mount, so we fix that, and also ensure we're initializing notes correctly.
While this approach works and you get that immediate feedback, it's certainly not perfect—we're making a bunch of network requests with every keystroke! At the end, we point this out and tee up the next episode, where we'll look at a more efficient way of handling these updates. For now, you've got live, reactive notes working—just be ready for the flood of requests if you type fast!