In this episode, we take our collection of book-adding forms and give them a serious upgrade. First, we spend some time making the form look a bit better—adding some styling, better structure, and tidying up the layout so everything is easier on the eyes. Then we hook up the ability to actually submit our form data—adding support for capturing the book title and author, and using that data to create a new book record for the user. If something goes wrong, we debug it together.
A big moment here: We notice that handling all this form logic directly inside our main Livewire component (like BookIndex
) feels a little messy. So, we move all that form-related state and functionality into a dedicated Livewire form class. This keeps things way more organized—our form logic (like maintaining title/author state and the logic for creating new books) now lives in its own place, and our main component gets a lot tidier.
We also learn how to reset our form state after submission (so the fields clear out), and tackle a few real-world issues, like an Alpine.js conflict and how to solve it. Throughout the episode, we talk through the reasons for each change, demo how things work as we go, and highlight plenty of practical tips for keeping your codebase clean.
By the end, everything is working nicely: our form looks good, behaves well, and is easy to maintain. Next up, we're diving into adding validation rules to our new form class, so stay tuned!