In this episode, we're diving into how to edit a book item in our app, focusing specifically on how to toggle its edit state. Remember earlier when we moved each book into its own component? This is exactly why—that way, we can have independent edit states for each book!
Here's what we do: we set up a Boolean property called editing
inside our book component and use it to show or hide the edit form. We look at a couple of ways to toggle this property, either by writing our own method or by using Livewire's built-in 'magic action'—the toggle
helper. We explore both approaches, showing you how to pass values to methods if needed, but then reveal the much simpler built-in way—just call toggle('editing')
in your button's click handler and Livewire takes care of the rest!
This approach keeps your components nice and clean. We round off by talking about how these magic actions make Livewire more efficient and your code tidier, though if you prefer writing your own method, that's totally fine too. You'll also hear about some other handy magic actions you can discover in the documentation. Next up, we'll actually wire up the edit form itself!