Let's Build Task Tracker App With Laravel | Part 3: Dashboard, Refactoring, Code Quality & Security

Hey everyone, welcome back to part three of daily task tracker. Let's do a quick recap. So we're building a daily task tracker in Laravel with a focus on architecture and security. In part one, we laid the foundation. We designed our database migrations, models. We set up the environment using Docker and Laral sale and built a custom authentication system handling everything from rate limiting to timing attacks. In part two, we built the core business logic of the application. Things like CRUD for categories and tasks, API resources, route model binding, authorization policies, and a console command for recurring tasks. We also optimized performance with chunked processing, and batch inserts. Now, in part three, we're going to prompt AI to build out the recurring tasks UI. While that's running, we're going to set up the factories and sitters to populate our database with some test data. Then we'll review and fix what the AI generates. After that, we're going to build the dashboard with Laravel debug bar enabled to inspect queries, set up Axios for Ajax calls, and then getting to refactoring our controllers to use action classes. We'll introduce caching, model events, and observers, and so on. Once we establish the patterns, we'll have AI apply them across the codebase. We'll also cover some security considerations, code quality tools like paint, PHP stand, and recctor, and some up service provider settings that I add to almost every Laravel project. Just like the previous parts, this one is also filled with a ton of information. So, without further ado, let's dive right in. All right. So, I'm going to press enter here. And while the claude is polishing our UI and implementing the controller for the recurring task templates, let's talk about populating our database with some test data. We need users, categories, tasks, and we need a lot of them because we need to see how the application performs with a volume of data that reflects the real world. This is where Laravel's factories and cedars come in. Think of factories as blueprints for creating fake model instances and cedars as the scripts that use those factories to populate your database. Model factories are classes that define how to generate fake instances of your models. They use the faker library under the hood to generate the realistic fake data. things like names, emails, addresses, dates and so on. Laravel already created the user factory for us and factories are stored under database factories directory and as you can see we have that user factory here. So as you can see the factory extends the base factory class and it defines a method called definition. The definition method is where we define the default state of our model. Something to note here is that the mass assignment protection is automatically disabled when using factories. So you don't need to worry about fillable or guarded in here. The fake helper function here gives us access to faker method. So the fake name here, this generates names like John Doe or Jane Smith. Safe email generates email addresses with domain like example.com. The unique modifier ensures that we never generate duplicate emails and so on. Notice the static password caching in here. This is kind of a performance optimization because hashing passwords is an expensive operation. So instead of hashing this password every single time we create the user record with the default values from this factory, we hash it once and store it in the static property. So that way the next user that gets created from this factory with the default uh password, it takes the cached password instead of hashing it again. Then if we scroll down here we have this unverified method and this is a state method. The unverified method here defines an alternative state for the factory. By default users are verified because email verified ad is set to null. So when we create users using the user factory by default they will all be verified. But if we wanted to create users that are not verified, we can have an alternate state and that's where we define different kind of methods here. So any other method that we define here, they can be states and in order for the method to be a state, we just need to return this state and pass the closure here. And the closure essentially returns the attributes that we want to update for that state. And in this case, emailver verified at needs to be set to null to have a user that's not verified. So essentially states let us create variations of our models without duplicating a lot of the code. Now you could also simply pass the email verified at null directly when creating uh a new user from this factory but having states make it kind of more readable and it gives you a bit more control and flexibility if you have some additional logic that goes in with a specific state. So now let's use this factory to create a user. So we'll open the terminal and let's start the tinker session. So we'll do PHP artisan tinker and then within tinker let's use the factory to create a new user. So we'll do user call factory statically on it and then call create on it. If we press enter, we see that the user was automatically aliased to the model, the user model and then the user was created. So if we now open the database and open the users, we see that the new user was created in here. If we run it again, we see another user was created and so on. We can create multiple users by specifying the count. So we can say hey let's create 10 users. We press enter. And now as you can see it returns the collection of the users that it has created. If I refresh this we see that now we have 10 more users than we did before. Alternatively if you don't want to call the count you could simply specify the count within here when calling the factory method. And this is going to do the same thing. We could also create the models without persisting them to the database by calling the make method instead of create. So let's say we want to create a user model but don't persist it. Maybe make some changes to it and then persist it. We can call make and this is simply going to return the user model but it is not going to update the database. So we have the 23 rows. If I refresh, we still have 23 rows. Now, you might be wondering how come we are able to call the factory statically on the user model. And that's because we have the H factory trait on the models. So, if we open the user model here and scroll down, we see that we have this has factory trait. This trait is the one that provides the factory method that gives us access to the models factory. So if we inspect that we see that we have that static factory method here and so on. Laravel uses a simple convention to figure out which factory class to use. It looks for the factory class in the database factories namespace that matches your model name with the factory appended to it. So the user model will look for the user factory in the database factories and if it finds it that's the factory class that it's going to use. Now if the factory doesn't follow the naming convention you can use the use factory attribute to explicitly specify which factory to use. So we can do use factory and then specify which factory class we want to use. In this case, maybe we had user factory but stored somewhere else, we would specify it here and then now the user model when calling the factory statically would use this factory class. Alternatively, if you don't want to use the use factory and the has factory trait here, but still want to make use of the factories, you could simply reference the factory directly. So we could do something like user factory and then call new and this is going to create the new instance of that factory and then we can simply say hey create another user and if we do that we see that it has created another user. So if we refresh this now we have 24 users. All right. So now let's create the factory classes for our category task and the recurring task models. So we'll do PHP Artisan make factory category factory and let's do the same for the task factory and the same for the recurring task factory. Then we need to add the H factory to our models. So let's open the category model and we'll add use has factory and let's do the same thing in the task model and in the recurring task model. Now let's start filling in these factories. So in the category factory we need to specify the name and the name can be fake and maybe some words maybe random words of up to three. So we'll do rand one three. We want these words to be as one string. So let's pass true here as the second argument. Then we also need the user ID. And since this is a relationship uh we can actually use the user factory in here so that whenever the category is created the default user that gets associated with that category if we don't provide the user ID will be the new user that Laravel will automatically create using that factory. So we can do simply something like user factory. Now we should be able to create categories using this factory. So if we open the terminal and start the tinker session, we should be able to do something like category factory and create. And this has created a new category with uh some random name, the user ID and so on. And if we open the users table again, we see that it has added a new user because we did not specify the user ID. So it used the default user and in this case it essentially uses the user factory to create the new user record for us. If we wanted to specify the user or any other columns for the category when we're creating the category using the factory, we can simply pass an array here and say name equals test and user ID equals maybe 21. If we press enter, we see that it has created a factory with the name and user ID that we passed. We could also specify the relationship outside of uh specifying the user ID by calling a method called for and passing the user record. So if we pass a model here, it will automatically figure out which relationship that is and assign it properly as long as you follow the standard conventions. So in here the for method basically uses the belongs to relationship for the model that's passed. Now I don't have the user variable here but I could simply do something like user find and find the user model and this is going to work. So if we hit enter we see that it works. If we wanted to create a new user on the fly we could simply pass the factory like that and it's going to create a new user. Now let's fill in the task factory here. I'm going to fill in these quick. So we have the user ID and the category ID. By default, we'll just new up those uh models as needed if uh we're not provided the specific user or the category ids. By default, we're not going to mark this task uh to be recurring task. So it's not going to have a recurring task ID. uh we're going to have some kind of title, the description, task date which will pick a random date between these two dates and then completed that will be null. Now for this it makes sense to have different states uh for the tasks. We may want to have a state for a recurring task. We may want to create a task that was created from a recurring task template. So we could do something like this. Now we could have simply used the relationships to create the relationship between the task and the recurring task but this state essentially allows us to set other attributes as well like the user ID, the category ID, title and description so that it makes more sense that this task was actually created from a recurring task template because their title, the category, the user ID and everything else matches. Then we can have a state for completed tasks. We can have a state for tasks that don't have a category, tasks that are uh due today and tasks that are overdue where the task date is in the past. So, I'm just going to paste in those methods in here to spit this up. And I'll go over some of the items in here that I think are important. For example, the sentence here uh is generating a sentence between 3 to eight words. The description here is a paragraph where with this optional method and the 0.7 or the 70% uh weight which essentially means that 70% of the time it is going to generate the description and 30% of the time it will be null. This mimics real world usage where not every task has a description. This as I mentioned just picks the random date between the two given dates. But if you provide a string like this minus 30 day plus 30 days, this also works and it in this case it essentially gives 60-day window to pick a random date from. This way we get kind of a mix of past, present and future tasks. Now if we go back to the tinker session, we could create tasks that are um more realistic. So we could do something like task factory today completed create. So as you can see the completed at now is set and task is set for today. We could create a task that's overdue. So we'll do overdue without category. Hit enter. Oh, we need to create it. So let's add create. And as you can see, it created a task without the category and the task date is in the past. So as you can see, this is more expressive and easier to read than passing bunch of attributes in here. All right. So now let's fill in the recurring task factory. We're going to have the user ID and the category ID the same way. Same for the title and description. The frequency, we'll set it to daily by default. And let's actually use the enum in here. The frequency config we're going to keep it as null by default. The start date will be the current date and we will have no end date by default. Now we can have some state methods here. So in this case it makes sense to have states like daily, weekday, weekly, monthly and maybe with some kind of end date. So I'm going to paste in some of these uh uh state methods here. So for daily we are specifying the frequency to be daily. Again I'll change this to use the enum class that we created. For the weekdays we'll change it to weekdays. And for weekly we'll change it to weekly. And for monthly we'll change it to monthly. And this one just specifies the end date for the recurring task template. Now, if we open the terminal and restart our tinker, we should be able to create uh recurring task templates using our factory. So, we could do something like create a daily recurring task template. And as you can see, that works. We have a frequency set to daily and the config is null. We can create recurring task that is for weekdays. We can do a recurring task that's for weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. And as you can see, that works as expected. We could also create a recurring task that ends in 6 months. And we see that it works. And we could create a recurring task for a specific user by specifying that user relationship. So we'll do four and do user find one for this example and we see that it works. Now factories are great for creating individual models but cedars are where we orchestrate the creation of those models in mass. You don't want to go to tinker and start uh creating these factories manually for each of your models. Cedars are essentially what will help you orchestrate that and create a lot of data for your environments. Cedars are classes that run in a specific order to populate the database with the test data. So let's look at the current database cedar class. As you remember we added this to create bunch of categories initially. This works but it is not great. We're hard coding the user ID. We're not using the factory and we're only creating categories. We're not creating anything else. So let's refactor this properly. First, instead of dumping all the logic inside the database sitter, let's create dedicated cedar classes for each model. This makes our code more organized and maintainable. So we'll do something like PHP artisan make cedar user seedar and then we'll do the same thing for the task sitter. Cedars are stored under the database sitter directory. So let's open the user sitter. As you can see this extends some base sitter class and provides a method definition for a method called run. Now within this method we can put our logic to create bunch of users. And this is where we can use the factories. So we can do something like create a test user with a known password in case we wanted to login with that user at some point. And then we can also say that we want to create nine more users afterwards. So this means that we'll have total of 10 users when we run the cedar. Notice that I'm not calling the hash password in here. That's because this will automatically be hashed due to Laravel's casting. So if we open the user model, we have the casts here where the password is being cast to hashed and Laravel will automatically hash the password for us. Now you could still hash it yourself if you wanted to. It's now going to double hash, but if you forget to hash, Laravel will automatically handle that for you. All right, so let's create the category seater as well. So we'll do category seater. Let's open that up. And in here, we're going to create maybe 25 to 50 categories for each user. So first we need to get all the users. So we'll do users equal user all. And then we'll do for each user we want to create 25 to 50 categories. So we'll do category factory. We'll do count random 25 to 50 for user and call create. Now let's do the task sitter. In here, we're going to do the same thing where we'll iterate over each user. And for each user's categories, we're going to create maybe 30 or 50 regular tasks. And then maybe we'll create some completed tasks and maybe some overdue tasks to kind of mimic the realistic scenarios. So, we'll do the same thing here. users equals user all then we'll do for each users get the categories and notice this is going to cause n plus1 problem here because we are trying to query the categories for each user so if we have 100 users we're going to execute 100 queries we are querying all the users first which could be 10 or 100 or 1,000 users and then for each of those users we are exe executing another query to fetch the categories and that's the n queries. Now, how can you spot the n plus1 problems? It kind of is pretty obvious at some degree, but it can be pretty tricky and hard to spot in certain uh scenarios. The pattern is usually uh you fetch a collection of models uh the one query and then inside a loop over that collection or over that list you access a relationship that was not eager loaded and that's the end queries. You can spot these by using tools like Laravel debug bar or telescope. These tools show you all the database queries uh or you can log the database queries uh and then see them in the logs. If you see the same query repeated with the different ids that typically means that it has n plus1 problem. This also is called lazy loading. It simply means that relationships are loaded on demand only when you access them which might be convenient because you don't need to load all the relationship data you might not need but it causes that M plus1 problem when you access relationships inside loops. The solution to M plus1 problem is eager loading as you saw before. We can load the relationships up front in a single query. We can use a method called with. So we could do user with categories and then call get on it. And this way we execute only two queries. One to get the users and the other to get the associated categories. And we don't have the n plus1 problem anymore. Then when you fetch the categories within the loop for each user record, Laravel automatically pulls the categories from the eager loaded list. You can also eager load multiple relationships by passing an array and having a commaepparated list. So instead of just categories, we could have user with categories, comma, tasks or you can have nested relationships and so on. So continuing here we can say task factory. We want to create 30 to 50 tasks for this user. We can also assign the category to this task at a random. We can pick a random category from this list and assign it to this task. So we can do something like for categories random. Then let's also create a few tasks that don't have any categories. So we'll do task factory and say count maybe between five and 10 tasks for this user but set the category ID to null. Actually we have the without category state I think. So instead of this we can do without category and this should work. Then let's also create some tasks that are completed and some tasks that are overdue. So we'll take this and clone it here. And then we'll do completed. And maybe we'll only do between 10 and 20 tasks. And then let's do the same thing, but do overdue. And maybe we'll only do five to 10 overdue tasks. Now, you could get as creative as you want here. You could alternate the different statuses like have uh some tasks that don't have the category but were completed, tasks that don't have the category and are overdue and so on. And you can play around with the different kinds of logic if you wanted to. There are many other features available to factories that you can look into the documentation for. For example, one such uh really good feature is uh sequences if you want to alternate different kind of values for different models that get created from the factories. And I think this is good enough for now. Let's also create the recurring task sitter. So we'll do recurring task seater. And in the recurring task sitter, we're going to do pretty much the same thing we're doing here. So let's copy this and put it in here. The difference here will be that we want to create uh recurring tasks with various frequencies. So we kind of want to pick random frequencies for different uh recurring tasks and maybe for different users. Now we can pick the random frequency from the available frequencies this way. So we can do something like frequency equals task frequency cases. This is going to return an array of all the cases and then we can pick the random um element from this array. So first let's move this in here. So we'll do frequencies equals this and then we can do something like fake random element and pass frequencies. Then we need to decide which state to call on the recurring task uh factory because if uh the random frequency that gets picked here is weekly or monthly we also need the configuration for it right. So we can use the match expression for that. So we can do something like match frequency and then if the matched frequency is daily then we can simply call recurring task factory to create the recurring task model and by default we are creating the daily recurring tasks. In fact, let's uh move this outside here like this and simply set it this way. Then if we have weekly, we're going to call weekly on it. If we have monthly, we're going to call monthly. For weekly, we need to pass uh the days that we want these uh task to be recurring for whether it's like Monday, Tuesday, or every Wednesday and so on. We can also pick a random one from that. But for now, I think we're just going to keep it simple and say we want it to be recurring on every Monday, which is the default value. Same goes for monthly. We're going to keep it simple and say to have it recur on the first day of the month. We also need the case here for the weekdays. So we'll do task frequency weekday and this will be weekdays. And here actually we can call daily this way. So it's a bit more consistent. Now we can also set the category for this recurring task to be random. So we'll do four categories random and finally we'll call create. All right. So now that we have the cedars, let's set up the orchestration through the database cedar class. So in here we're going to get rid of these and we can simply call a method called call. And this accepts an array of sitters that we want to execute in order. So we'll do user sitter first then we'll do category sitter task seed and recurring task seed. Now in order to run all the cedars we simply need to run db seed artisan command. So we can do something like phpart artisan db seed and this is going to run through all the cedars specified in the database cedar. If we wanted to run it for a specific cedar, we could specify class task cedar for example and it will only execute this cedar. We could also run the cedars right after we reset the database. So if we were running something like migrate fresh, we could add d- seed and it's going to start fresh, reset all the tables and then seed the database. So let's run the sitter for now to make sure that it is working. So I'm going to run the user sitter for now. Let's run that. Uh not the make sitter. We need to run it. So it's PHP artisan db seed and class user cedar. It worked. If we open the users table, we have 10 more users. So if we run it again, we see that we get an error that the user already exists with this email address. Now let's run the category sitter. And it's taking a while because uh I have a lot of users right now. We have 48 users and it's essentially creating 25 to 50 categories for each user. So if we refresh this table now we have over 1,700 categories. Now let's run the PHP artisen migrate fresh and do seed. So the user and the category sitter is executed but the task se is throwing an error. Start date must be interior to end date. So if we go to task factory 47 the completed that we are using date time between the task date and now and task date sometimes can be in future and if that's the case this doesn't make sense. What we need to do in this case is that we need to ensure that task date is in fact in the past and not in the future. So we can take this and update it here to ensure that it is within the last 30 days. And we can take this and assign it to a variable and we can turn this into a nonarrow function. So that way we can have some logic in here. So we'll do return. Let's format the code. And here we can do task date equals to this and we'll replace this here. Now this should work. So let's run it again. And as you can see now all the seders worked without any issues. So if we open the users we have the 20 users and I think it should be 10. I think we have an issue in the recurring task se. So if we open that up here, we're not specifying the user relation. So it essentially loops through all the users, which we have 10 users, and it creates recurring tasks. And then for each recurring task, it creates a new user. And in this case, it creates 10 users cuz we're creating 10 recurring tasks. So we need to fix two things here. First, we want to create a few recurring tasks, not just one for each user. So maybe we need some kind of loop here. So we'll do something like I = 0 I less than 20 I ++ and let's specify the user here. So we'll do for user and now it should create these recurring tasks for this user. So each user gets about 20 recurring tasks. In fact, maybe we can set this to some kind of random number between 1 and 10. And we'll do this less than or equal to. So it's going to pick a number between 1 and 10. So at max, we'll have 20 recurring tasks for the user. And otherwise, we may have only 10 recurring tasks for a user depending on what the random number here is. In fact, maybe let's bump this to 15. So, some users may have five recurring tasks, some users may have 10, and so on. So, let's run this again. Let's check the users now. And sure enough, now we have only 10 users. Let's check the categories. And we have 347 categories. Let's check tasks. And we have 687 tasks. And the recurring tasks, we have 154 recurring tasks. All right, I think that's good enough for now. We could play around with more sitters and set up more logic to create more realistic data, but this is good enough for now. We can run these sitters manually. We can run the factories manually to bump up the volume of the data that we have for various testing reasons. All right. So with that, let's uh move on to review the UI that cloud code has generated for us and the controller for the recurring task uh CRUD management. So we're going to log in with the test user that we created through our cedar test at example.com and password is password. Let's go to tasks. And as you can see, we have the data populated here. This is from the cedars that we ran uh that use the database factories. And we have a new button here called recurring tasks. So if we go in here, we see that we have some recurring tasks that were created. We can add new recurring tasks. We can delete and edit recurring tasks. As you can see, the task was deleted successfully. Let's try to delete one more. Let's try to edit this task. So, I'm just going to prefix it with test. We have the title, description, the category dropdown, the frequency drop-down, start date, and end date, which are optional. And uh if we select uh weekly or monthly, we will see additional fields. So, for weekly, we see checkboxes that we can select like Monday, Wednesday. or monthly, we need to add the day of the month that we want this recurring task to recur on. Um, so let's set it to weekly for now and update this recurring task template. And sure enough, it was updated and we see that schedule now is Monday, Wednesday on weekly basis. We can create the new task and the same uh form shows up here. So we can do test test. We can select the category, the frequency. Let's set it to monthly this time. And let's create this uh recurring task template. And sure enough, we see that it worked. All right. So, seems like Claude did a pretty good job on setting up this UI for us as well as the back end to be able to manage the recurring task templates. If we try to add a new task, we no longer see that checkbox to make this recurring, which is expected because we can create recurring tasks from another page now. All right. So before we build the dashboard, let's review the code to make sure that whatever Claude did is acceptable uh to us. And if we need to make some changes, we can make them uh now or we can make those changes later on. So let's go in here and I'm going to simply review the diff here. So first we have this Xcloak on the app.css. I believe this is the AlpineJS thing. It is needed to make some flashing screens go away like if you refresh a page and uh you're trying to show and hide things based on different selections like in the drop down for the frequency drop down to avoid that little flashiness. I think this is what that solves. So we add the Xcloak attribute to the HTML element and we mark it to be display none. It essentially hides the element that it is attached to until the alpine is fully loaded on the page. Then it seems like cloud code has created reusable components here. Uh especially the one for category select which makes sense. So, it's not duplicating this um div with listing the categories in a drop-down across multiple views because you would have to repeat this in the recurring task templates when editing and adding a new template and also within the tasks and seems like it modified the tasks blade as well which is right here. It removed the duplication and it uses the component that it created. So then we have the create recurring task template uh blade view file here which is a standard form. I'm assuming this is very similar or almost identical to the create tasks view. Uh then it updated the create tasks view and it replaced this duplication with the component and it also removed that is recurring uh checkbox from this view. Then we have the edit recurring task template form and then uh it updated the edit tasks view again removing the is recurring and reusing the component here. Then it created a frequency select dropdown which is used inside the create and edit recurring task template views. This is the recurring task templates index page which lists or displays all the recurring tasks in a table as well as the buttons on the top. Again, it's very similar to the tasks index page. Then we have the tasks index page that was updated to have the recurring tasks button at the top. And I believe that's it here. Uh no, it removed the recurring uh column from the table. Then we have a reusable component for the day of the month. And as you can see, we have that Xcloak attribute in here. Then on the recurring task model, I don't remember if I added this or if Claude decided to fix it, but we were missing the root key name uh to be UU ID. Uh then we have the recurring task controller, which I'll go through in a bit in more detail, but let's look at the policy. So in the policy is similar to the other policies. It checks if the user of the recurring task is the same user as the currently logged in user. We have the recurring task resource. We are returning the UYU ID, title, description, the category only if it's loaded, frequency, the frequency config, start and end dates and then created and updated dates. All right. Then we have the store recurring task form request. So we have the title, description, category ID, frequency, days. The frequency has to be one of the enum values. So that's a good one. The days can be excluded unless the frequency is set to weekly. That's what this exclude unless uh does. It is required if the frequency is weekly. And then it needs to be an array with a minimum of one value. So it has to be either one of these values. Then this rule here essentially checks to make sure that the individual array items that are being passed here are one of these values. Then day of the month can be excluded unless the frequency is monthly. If it's frequency monthly then it is required has to be integer and between 1 and 31. The start and end dates are nullable. They need to be dates and the end date needs to be after or equal to start date. All right. So I think that's pretty good. The task model there is not much changes in here. We removed the is recurring from the task and task resource. Update recurring task form request is similar to the store recurring task request. Then the user model now has the recurring tasks relationship and we have the routes. So we have the resourceful routes for the recurring tasks except the show method. The parameters method here is trying to override the parameter name. So it's essentially trying to set the parameter name to recurring task for recurring tasks. The thing is this is not necessary because I believe it is set to recurring task regardless. So if we open the terminal and we run PHP artisan route list, we see that it is recurring task because we're overwriting it. But if we comment this out and we run it again, we see that it's still recurring task. And to be sure, we can do PHP artisan route clear to be sure that it's not cached and then run route list. We see that it's still recurring underscore task. So I'm not sure why it decided to add this. Um I would maybe consider it having it but making it camel case, but I assume on the front end it is doing the recurring underscore task. But I think this is fine. We'll just keep it the way it is. So, I'm actually going to remove this and just uh keep it consistent cuz we don't have that anywhere else. All right, let's continue. So, we also have that reusable component here called weekly days. And this is the checkboxes that uh it displays for each day of the week. All right. So, I think the code looks okay. Uh let's review the controller quick here. So, we have the index. We're loading the recurring tasks. uh we are eager loading the categories and we're only loading the users recurring tasks. We are loading the categories and we're passing that down to the view as well as the links for pagenation. Then for create we are loading the categories and I think we will optimize this at some point because we are doing it in multiple places now not just in the task controller but we're also doing it in the recurring task controller. So we'll refactor this to uh make it a bit better. Then we have the store method. We're checking the category ID properly here. If the given category ID from the request does not belong to the current user, it is throwing an exception. Then uh we're building the frequency config and setting it on the data. We are removing the days and day of the month because uh we don't need days and day of the month to be part of data anymore because they will be part of the frequency config. So that's what this build frequency config does. And yeah, it gets the frequency from the request. Then it checks the frequency to see if it's the weekly or the monthly. If it is weekly, it checks if the request has days. And if it does, returns the days. And then if it's monthly, it returns the day of the month. Now I'm not sure I am happy with just getting it this way. Maybe we should just pass the validated list of data to this instead of the request and get it from there. So we'll pass the data and then we'll go here and we'll say we have array data and this way we can later move this method somewhere else instead of having it in the controller and we don't have to depend on the request object we can depend on some kind of array or even a DTO if we want to go a step further. So we'll just get the data here and we'll say that we'll get the data and we'll just get the frequency from this data because we know that frequency will be set on the data since it's part of the form request. So we see here the frequency is a required field. So it will always be set. So let's go in here and we get the frequency and then same thing here we'll just simply do is set data days and get it this way and do the same thing here. So we'll do is set data day of month and if it's set we will get it this way just a slight refactoring. So let's continue here. Once we remove that, we just pass it directly to the create method on the user's recurring tasks to create the recurring task for that user. And we redirect the user with the success message. The edit controller method just loads the category and passes the list of categories to the view as well as the frequencies for the drop-down to display it and passes the recurring task resource. Then the update method does similar to what the store method was doing. It checks for the category access the proper access making sure that the user can access the category that a user is trying to set and it does the same thing for the frequency config. So we need to pass instead of request the data here and then it calls the fill method passing the data and calls the save on the recurring task. The destroy simply deletes the recurring task. So, let's make sure that whatever changes we made actually um didn't break anything. So, I'm going to delete this. Let's create another one. We'll select maybe weekly frequency and set it to Thursday and Monday. Create. That works. Let's try to edit it. Let's change it to daily update. And that works. Let's change it to monthly. And that works. And I think this is pretty good. I think Claude did a good job on this. So, I'm going to keep it. We'll come back and refactor and clean it up. Um, later on, I'm planning to do some uh refactoring like cleaning this up, putting it into maybe services or actions so that we don't have controllers uh cluttered up with a lot of logic. Maybe duplicate some of the code here like I said with the category loading or even this checking access to the category because we're doing it in four places now. We're doing it two in the recurring task controller and two in the task controller. So it would be good if we extracted this into some reusable logic that we could call from all of these places and we'll get to that. I first want to get to the finish line and then we'll do some uh fun refactoring. All right. So with that let's move on to the dashboard. Now, for the dashboard, I want to build something where we will have kind of like a statistic cards on the front. So, we'll have like maybe three or four statistic cards that show you maybe some overdue tasks, the tasks that have been completed today, maybe total tasks completed last seven days and things like that. Um then below that maybe we can show something like any overdue tasks that we haven't completed from yesterday or the day before. If we left some task incomplete, maybe we need to show that in some kind of section and highlighted that these are overdue tasks so that the user completes them. And then on the right side of it, we can show the tasks that are for today. I don't want to over complicate it. We'll try to keep it simple. and we're going to have Claude build it out. I don't want to write a lot of the UI code here. We pretty much covered everything that was needed. I think we can have Claude take it from here and then I will review what Claude does and adjust it if needed. So, I'm just going to do that behind the scenes and come back once Claude is ready with the dashboard code and we'll review and see how it did. All right. So, Claude has finished implementing our dashboard. So, as you can see, we have the dashboard controller, the dashboard blade template that have been updated. And if we review the changes, we see that we have two new components here. One is the stat card component and the other one is task list. We're going to go over these in just a bit and also see in the UI what it did. Now, before I go over to the UI, I want to refresh our database because we made some changes uh and so on. So, we're just going to run PHP artisan migrate fresh and then do seed. So, we received the database tables. And once that's done, let's switch over to the browser. We're going to log in with the test example user. And as you can see, we have a dashboard that looks pretty nice if you ask me. So, we have the current date displayed in here. As you can see, it's been quite a while since I recorded the last session. Then, we have the new task button, which I assume if we click, we go to the new task page, and we do. Uh, we have the four statistic cards as we described in the prompt. We have number of tasks completed today. And it seems like this is listing uh zero out of one because there is one task that's for today and it hasn't been completed. Then we have 29 overdue tasks. So we have some tasks that were created in the past from our sitter and they were never marked as completed. We have 53 total incomplete tasks and we have seven total completed tasks within the last 7 days. And it seems like we can mark these as completed as well. So if we click on that, it is marking it as completed. And as you can see, the overdue tasks are decreasing. And then total pending is decreasing as well. We can complete the one for today. And now this got updated 100% completed. Let's just go through this all just to see if this section disappears because we had that in the prompt as well. And sure enough, it does. And we have upcoming tasks only. Maybe if we are not showing the overdue tasks, we would make this full screen here. But I think this is okay for now. It also added this cool quick actions section which uh are just the navigation buttons that take you to various sections to the page. So this one takes us to the all tasks. This one I would assume it selects the filter on the tasks. So if we go here, yeah, it selects the incomplete filter. So we have all the incomplete tasks in here. And you might be asking how come these are not in the part of overdue tasks. That's because those 23 incomplete tasks are for future. It's part of our sitter that selected the task date in the future and they're not completed. So that's why they're incomplete tasks. They're not for today and they're not overdue either. They're simply tasks that we haven't gotten to yet. All right. So I think it did a pretty good job. So now let's go over to the code and review to see uh what the code actually looks like. So the first thing that it's doing is getting the statistics uh in this stats array. And this is uh used for that stat cards that we saw the first four cards uh on the dashboard. So we have the tasks today, completed today, overdue and total pending. Now this is running four queries here. I would personally do this in one query. It is possible to get all of this using one query and we will optimize this later on. So we're going to keep it this way for now and then later I'll show you how we can make this into a single query. Then down here we have total completion rate which is the percent rate. So it takes the completed tasks uh and divides it by the tasks for today multiplying by 100 and rounds it to get the percent value. Then it is querying the upcoming tasks. It is eager loading the categories which is good. It's checking where between the task date is uh between today and tomorrow and where completed at is null. It is only getting the 10 upcoming tasks. I assume this is because we want to limit how many upcoming tasks we display at a time. Now this might be a good thing or a bad thing depending on uh your requirements. You may want to show all the upcoming tasks and just pagionate on the dashboard. Or you might just want to show the first 10 tasks. This one is ordering by the task date. But since the task date is just a date, not a date time, and we may have many tasks that are for the same day, this is not really going to order uh properly. So what we need to order it by is the task date. And then maybe we can also order by created at this way the tasks that were created first for the same day will be shown on top. Then we're getting the overdue tasks. It is also eager loading the categories where no completed at uh where date is less than today and it also orders by task date and let's also order by the created at the same way. Here we get the five overdue tasks and then we have recent completions which checks where completed at is no and where completed at is within the last seven days. All right. So let's format the code in here and let's look at the UI on the dashboard. We're displaying the today's date in this format. We are adding that button in here. Then we are displaying the tasks for today component. So it is using that stat card component which is a reusable component and that's pretty good that it did that and it didn't duplicate a lot of the HTML in here. That way we are passing the title, the stats, the trend and the color and it handles the display uh and it also displays the icon seems like. Then we also have the tasks list uh display here for the overdue and upcoming tasks and it also uses uh a reusable component task list. In this case, it's passing the four props, the title, the tasks, empty message, and variant. And then on the bottom, we have the quick links. So, this is just showing links to various pages. All right. So, that's pretty uh simple, I think. So, let's quickly inspect these components. So, we're going to open the stat card and then the task list. And it's pretty self-explanatory in here. Looks like we can also go into individual task to edit which is pretty good that I didn't realize. So if we go here, let's add a new task for today. Go to dashboard. Then if we hover over this. Yeah. So these are links. So I would probably maybe enhance the UI here to make it clear that these are clickable. So if we click it just takes us to edit that task, which is pretty cool. All right. So now that we have our dashboard working, even though it's kind of minimalistic, let's talk about some potential optimizations and performance debugging that you might need to do in your laral applications. How many database queries are we actually running when we visit the dashboard or when we try to edit a task and so on? Are we loading more data than we actually need? These are the questions that are not so trivial to answer just by reading the code. We need some kind of tools and some of my favorite tools to answer these kind of questions are Laravel debug bar along with telescope and clockwork. We're going to be installing Laravel debug bar in this project. Laravel debug bar is a development package that adds a toolbar to your application that shows you everything that's happening under the hood. I personally use telescope or clockwork because I typically don't use blade for view rendering and work with an API layer like graphql or rest api and then the react on the front end. But in some cases I use debug bar as well. All right. So we're going to install the debug bar using composer. So that's composer require laravel debug bar and we'll install that as a dev dependency because it's a development only tool and you don't want it in production because it could expose sensitive information and also slow things down. All right, once that's installed, let's go to the browser, refresh the page, and as you can see, we have the debug bar showing right here. It is showing the requests, the views, the queries, models and so on. So if we click on queries, we see all the queries that are being executed in here. If we click on models, we see all the models that have been hydrated on the dashboard. Uh if we go to messages, we see that these are the messages from our log file. If we go to views, we can see all the blade views that are being rendered in here. So we have the dashboard, we have the stat card being rendered four times because we have four cards, we have the task list, the layout navigation, etc. Now if we look at the queries, we see that we're executing 10 queries, which is not too bad, but it can be better. Like I said, we are executing these four queries here that we can bring it down to one query. So that's minus three queries that we could uh optimize here. Um, and then maybe we could optimize some of the other things as well. But what I want to do is I want to rerun the database sitter again so that we have some overdue tasks and so on to make sure that there is nothing crazy going on in terms of number of queries to make sure we don't have n plus1 query and so on. All right, let's refresh here. Let's log in. So we have test example.com password login and we have 11 queries and 11 models. So as you can see now we're loading more models than before because we have the five overdue tasks and three upcoming tasks. So total is eight. So we see the eight tasks here. We have two categories because only two unique categories are associated with the rendered tasks. Here we have one category right here and one category right here. If these tasks all had different categories, it would load more category models in here and it's hydrating the user model because we are logged in as a user. All right, so I think this is not too bad. We could certainly optimize it, but I don't think this is uh terrible. Then we go to tasks. Here we are running six queries. the sessions and users. This is kind of a given. We need to run these queries because it's for user authentication. So we have four additional queries here. One is to get the total from the tasks. Then we are actually getting the tasks uh with pagionation and uh we're getting the categories and then getting the category name and u ID. This is for the dropdown. On edit we can see a new tab here called gate. And if we click on that, this is the policy that we are using on editing the task. So we're making sure that only the user that can manage this task can actually access this page. Let's go to the categories page. And nothing crazy here. We're loading 15 category models because we have 15 models displayed here. And we are executing two additional queries on top of the user authentication. Uh let's go to the recurring tasks. And nothing crazy here as well. We have the 13 recurring tasks, 10 categories, and one user. The other thing that I want to optimize is this query right here. As you notice, we're calling this query on multiple pages. So we're on the tasks page. We're getting that query. If we go to edit page, we're calling that query because of the drop-down. If we go to create new task, we're calling that query. And if we go to recurring tasks, we're calling that query. And the same applies to new recurring task and the edit recurring task as well. So that's a lot of times where we are calling this query. And it's a potential optimization because categories don't change often, right? the user sets up the categories and usually it's set in and forget it, right? You don't add categories that often. So, it's a prime candidate for caching and maybe just executing it one time and then everywhere else we loaded from cache. So, we are not executing extra query and then we need to make sure that we bust the cache whenever a new category gets created, category gets updated or deleted. But we're going to do that a bit later. For now, I want to move our attention to making Ajax calls because right now when we toggle a task completion uh status from either the dashboard or from within the tasks page, we're doing a full form submission. The page does a full page reload. So, if you notice, if I click this, this will refresh right here. So, if we click that, as you can see, it does a full page reload. It may not be noticeable because it's pretty fast, but it still does the full page reload. Now, the page reloads sometimes are okay, but it may also not be the smoothest experience um in certain cases. So, we can refactor this easily to use Ajax with Axios. So, tasks can be completed instantly without a page refresh. And this will work on both the dashboard and the tasks page using uh the same JavaScript method. So let's go back to code and I'm going to close these out from here and we'll open the resources JavaScript directory. Now Laravel already includes Axios uh in its default setup and installation. You can see it configured within the bootstrap.js file. As you can see, it makes axios available on the window object and it sets the x requested with header in here. The thing is instead of using the window axios, I want to create a dedicated HTTP client module. This will give us a clean place to configure things like interceptors for centralized error handling and so on. So, we'll create a new file within the resources js directory. We'll call it HTTPJS. And we're going to import Axios here from Axios. And then we're going to use the Axios create method to create the Axios instance. So we'll do const HTTP equals Axios.create. We can set the same headers that uh Laravel was setting it here. So we want to set X requested with a header with the XML HTTP request value. So we'll just do it this way. Then once we have this set up, we can do export default HTTP. Then once we have the instance, we can add interceptors. And interceptors are functions that essentially let you uh intercept the request or responses uh on the Axios before they're handled by the then or catch blocks. It kind of acts like a middleware essentially. So in our case it can be useful because we may want to handle common errors in one place instead of repeating error handling everywhere in our uh JavaScript. So we could do something like HTTP interceptors response and use on error. We want to do something like this. So we're going to first check for network errors. If the error response is undefined, that could mean that the request was unable to connect or reach the server. Maybe the user lost internet connection or something. So we can handle such scenario before checking for any specific uh HTTP status code. So we can do something like if not error response alert unable to connect to the server and then we can return promise reject error. Then after that we can get the HTTP status from the response. So we can do const status equals error response status and then we can do either the if else check or a switch statement. So we'll do switch status and then provide cases for different uh status codes. So for example for 401 that essentially means that the session expired or user was logged out. So we need to redirect the user to login page. So we'll simply do window location href equals slash login and break. Then we can have another case to handle maybe 419 status code which is essentially CSRF token mismatch from larable. And if we get that error maybe we need to reload the page. So we reinitialize the CSRF token. So we'll do case 419 window location reload break for validation status code like 422. Um I think individual components should handle that and uh figure out how to display inline error messages and things like that. I don't want to provide a global error handler in here for uh validation errors. Now, I would do that if we had something like a toast uh library or something that would show a notification on a page when errors come in. But since we're not using any of those uh packages or libraries, we're just going to keep it simple. Otherwise, I would add the case 422 in here and parse the validation errors and then display the notification with the proper validation error. But that essentially depends on the project requirements. In this case, we don't need to do that. So, we'll just add a case for 500. And in this case, we're just going to alert a server error has occurred and break. Now, I'm not going to fill in other status codes for now, but you get the idea. You can fill in other status codes if you want to handle them in different ways. And at the end, we'll return promise reject and pass the error to it. This way it ensures that the error still propagates to the calling code so that we could add additional handling if we needed to or log it for debugging and so on from wherever we're making the Ajax call. Now I do want to mention that having alerts here is not a good user experience because um it blocks the browser thread. Um, I'm just keeping it simple for this project, but ideally this would be some kind of u toast notification or you would pull in some kind of library or build it from scratch that would essentially show a notification to the user. And I think that's pretty much it for this HTTPJS file. Now, we could also add a helper function here, something like get validation errors that essentially parses the errors and returns a nicely formatted object. But we don't need to do that. We'll keep it simple for now. All right. So, once we have this, now let's create a module specifically for tasks because we want to have a function to toggle the task completion. So we'll create a new file here called tasks js. We're going to export async function called toggle task completion. We're going to accept the task ID as well as the button that is initiating this call. And then in here we're going to try and make um the request to the server to complete the task. Now as you remember to complete the task it is a patch request. So we would need to use the patch function on the Axios instance. So we would need to do something like http.patch and pass some kind of URL. So let's create the URL variable here. So const url equals and the URL here is going to be tasks slash task id toggle completion. Then since we are passing the button that is initiating this function we can disable the button to prevent uh double clicks. So we can do button disabled equals true and we can wrap this inside try finally block because it can result in an error. Um and we can also add the catch block here if we wanted to handle uh the errors in certain way but in this case I don't think we care to do that. So we'll do button disabled equals false if something goes wrong. So we reenable the button and we can assign this to a response equals await http patch and once we get the response we can return the response data. So we can do return response data. All right. As you notice, we're returning response data here. But if we open the task controller, we are not really returning anything from the toggle completion. In fact, this is just a redirect back. So we need to adjust this to return a JSON response because this will expect a JSON response back and not a redirect. So what we need to do here is that we can simply return JSON and pass some kind of um attribute in here. So we can do something like completed and do task completed at doesn't equal to null. So this way we know if the task was completed or it was marked as incomplete. Copilot was suggesting to pass success true I think and I don't like to do those kind of things because uh a response with a 200 status code already indicates success. So so returning a success in a JSON form uh kind of feels redundant. All right. So once we have that here, let's now go back in here and we have this function, but we need to add this function or trigger this function from somewhere. And we need to trigger that whenever a button that is being passed here is clicked, which means we need to add some kind of event listener to our button click event. Now there are multiple ways we can do this. We can either add a class or attribute to our buttons all over our code and then iterate through all the buttons and add the listener to each one. But that may become problematic if you have dynamic elements where you add new tasks which has its own toggle icon. If you click on that, it's no longer going to work because um the event listener was already added from a loop. So instead of doing that we're going to uh use event delegation and for that we're going to create a utility uh file and a utility function to add uh event listener to any element that we want. That way it doesn't have to be just a button. We may want to add other kind of event listeners to other elements and so on. So we'll create a utils js and in here we'll export function add global event listener and we'll accept the type selector callback and maybe parent which will be set to document by default. Now, as I mentioned, instead of looping through the elements and attaching a listener to each one, we're going to attach a single event listener to a parent element and then check if the clicked target matches the selector. So, that essentially what event delegation is. That way, we have one uh listener on the document parent or any parent. It doesn't have to be document. We can pass a parent uh in this uh function. and we will attach one listener to that parent. And then whenever a child element in there, the whatever the selector is clicked, we're going to match the target to the selector and essentially execute the code for that clicked element. This means that it will also work for u new tasks that get dynamically added without a full page reload. like if we had infinite scroll or maybe we uh refactored it to have Ajax calls when adding a new task. That way it will automatically work with this type of uh event listener. All right. So in here we can do something like parent add event listener and we'll add a type which can be a click. Then we'll try to find the closest target based on the selector. So we'll do const target equals E target closest selector and then if we found the target we will run the call back on that and pass the event as well as the target and now we need to call this from somewhere. Now we can call this directly from the app.js JS uh and add the global event listener to our toggle buttons or we can create a helper function that can do that. That way we extract that completely within our tasks.js. So appjs doesn't have to know anything about it. So we'll create an export a function here and we'll call it something like init task completion handlers and this will simply call the add global event listener and it will add a click event listener and maybe we can um either add a class to our toggle buttons or we can just add a data attribute. So we can do something like data task toggle. We need to pass a callback. This will be async and we get event and button. And then in here we'll do event prevent default. And we need to execute the toggle task completion function in here. So we need to do something like await toggle task completion and pass the task ID and the button. The button we already have but we need to get the task ID. So let's do const task ID equals and we can get the task ID from the button doing something like button data set task ID and we'll adjust the blade template to make sure that we can get the task ID properly and our buttons have this data task toggle and so on. We also need to mark that toggle button as completed. So when you click the toggle button, we will execute this and once we get a success response, we need to update that toggle button with the checkbox, right? It now is going to be checked. If we click on a completed task, then it needs to be unchecked. So we need to essentially make that change manually here because we're not doing the page reload. So we can do that by getting the container uh that is closest to that button. So we can do container equals button closest and get something like data task item. And after this we need to do something like if we have the container we need to mark its data set completed to the completed value that we get from here. Remember this returns the data here. So we could essentially assign this to a variable like this. Completed equals this. And then if we have the container we can do container data set completed equals completed. Now I'm not an expert in JavaScript so there might be better ways of doing this but this is um how I remember uh doing it in vanilla JavaScript. I don't really write vanilla JavaScript a lot uh in recent days. I work mainly with React but um I think this should work. All right. So now the only thing we need to do is we need to call this in our app.js to initialize it. So in here we'll just do init task completion handlers and that's pretty much it. And I think we can really get rid of this bootstrap entirely. If we go here, the only thing we really need is the Alpine here. So we can move this in the app here like this. Window Alpine and Alpine start like that. And we essentially no longer need the window axios. So we can just get rid of this file entirely. All right. So the only thing left is to update our blade templates. So let's open dashboard blades template and we need a completion uh element and I think that is within the task list. So we need to open the task list component. So in here we have this form uh that handles the task completion. in here. Instead of using JavaScript to manipulate the classes and swap SVG content here and so on, we're going to use Tailwind's group and group data selectors. So the first thing that we need to do is we need to find the parent or the container element of this and add the class group to it and as well as the data task item and the data completed and the parent container here is either the div element here or the list item and overall the main container of the task item is this list item. So we could add it to the list item. So I'm going to add the group here in the list of class. Then we're going to add the data task item and we also need to add the data completed attribute and this is going to be set by default to the value that we have from the task variable. The next thing that we need to do after we've set up the container properly, if we go back here, so we have the container set properly and this will work as well because now we have the completed being updated properly. Uh we need to add the task ID data attribute to the button. So let's go here and in the button we can do data task id equals to task id. We also need to add the trigger uh data attribute right and that is data task toggle. So we need to add that to this button because we want to make this button be the trigger button that triggers that uh event and the listener. So we'll do data task toggle and this should work. Now we can replace the type submit to type button. We can get rid of the form entirely because we no longer need it. And this should ideally work. Now we will adjust the SVG properly because we want to make sure that uh we are displaying the proper uh UI. Before when we were clicking on the complete it was doing the full page reload and this task was no longer included in the list. So we could either do the same in the JavaScript and remove that task from the list entirely or we can update its UI and cross it out and maybe change the icon or something like that. Kind of what we do on the tasks page. So if we go back to the browser um and we go to tasks when we toggle the completion uh as you can see now we're getting the JSON response because it is no longer redirecting us back. But if we go back and refresh we see that we are changing the icon here and we are crossing it out. So we may want to do the same thing on the dashboard. So let's actually see if this works. Now, it's not going to change the UI because we haven't updated that. But at least we can see if that works. So, we click that. The request went through and we got 200 response. And if we open the response, we see we're getting completed true. That means if we inspect element on this, we have the data completed updated to true. And seems like it's working as expected. Now, if I refresh, this is going to be gone from here. And sure enough, it is. So now we just need to adjust the UI so that when we click this, it's going to cross this out and update the UI. So let's go back here. And this is the empty circle. Essentially, the task that hasn't been completed yet. So we want to have another SVG here that is showing the check mark SVG. So, we need to copy that from the task blade. So, let's open the tasks index, I believe, and let's find this SVG. And probably would be wise to maybe um make this into a reusable component. But for now, let's just search that. So, yeah, we have if it's completed, we're showing this SVG. If not, we're showing this. So, we're going to copy that and put it here. and then later we could extract it into a reusable component if we wanted to. So we need to show another SVG here. Now we're going to control whether it's hidden or shown using Tailwind. To do that we're going to add a class here called group data. And then we're going to make it depend on the completed equals to false. And the other one is going to depend on completed true. If it's completed false or completed true, we want it to display as block and otherwise we want it to be hidden. So we'll just have both of them hidden by default. Then this will handle the proper SVG icon display. The other thing is we want to cross out the title, right? So to do that we can add the similar class to this title. So we go here and we can do something like group data completed equals true and we'll do line through. Now if we save and go back to the browser we see that the checkboxes are completely hidden. I think that's because we're casting this to boolean and it's just not setting the proper true or false value to this data attribute. It needs to be a string. So we'll do true or false this way. And I think that's going to fix it. So if we save it and go back. Yeah. So now we have these back. If I click this now, it's supposed to update this icon and it's supposed to cross that out. So we click that and sure enough that works. Now if we click it again it works as well. So what's happening here is that the group class that we added to the container establishes essentially a group context for the child elements. Then whenever we uh toggle the task if we inspect elements this uh data completed attribute gets set to true. And then when this is true, we are either showing or hiding different SVGs or we are striking through u this title when needed. And these buttons are kind of uh aligned in a weird way. Uh let me see what the class is. It is item start. I think this should be item center. Maybe if I remove this. Yeah, I think this looks better. So we'll go back and remove that and go back here. And yeah, it looks much cleaner this way. Now, another option is we could make this align with that, but I'm not going to do that for now. All right. So, now we need to do the same thing on the tasks page. So, that way this doesn't do the full page reload. Well, in this case, it no longer does full page reload because we updated the response to be JSON. Um, but we can update this on the UI as well. So if we go here, we can open the index uh for the tasks. We need to get rid of the form. So we'll get rid of this form. We'll move this in here. We need to add it to its container, which is the table row here. So we'll do class equals group data task item data completed. And this will be the same thing. task completed at if it is true otherwise false then we need to hide the SVGs by default and we need to show both SVGs so I'm just going to remove this and we'll just control its visibility based on the tailwind group so group data completed equals false block and the same thing here completed equals true. Then we need to add the task toggle here. So data task toggle and data task id task ID. This type will be button not submit. And let's wrap this in double quotes. And I think we're good. The other thing is we need to make this uh crossed out when it's uh completed. So we will add it to here. Instead of doing the line through this way, we will do group data completed true line through. Let's go to the browser and seems like it's the other way around. Oh, I think because this is the checked and this is the circle. It's the other way around. So, this should be true and this should be false. If we save and go back. Yeah, now it's correct. So now if I toggle this, as you can see, it correctly gets toggled and so on. Now, we could of course further improve this code by extracting uh some of these into reusable components, but I would leave that for you as an exercise if you want to do that on your own. Another exercise that you could try is the delete option here. If we inspect element, you will see that we are rendering the form for each delete button here. And we can easily refactor this to use the same Axios instance that we did for the toggling. We would just need to update the controller method to return the proper uh JSON response or maybe in this case even no response at all because if it's deleted, it's a 200 uh status. If it's not deleted, then it would respond with the proper error status code. And then in JavaScript, we would check if it's a successful 200. Then we just remove this from the table list. The pattern is pretty much the same thing as with this. We have the global event delegation uh helper function that we could reuse for this delete. So you could add event handler whenever the delete buttons are clicked anywhere. You could specify the container for it. Instead of the default document container, you could specify this table, for example, and it would only uh handle clicks uh for the delete buttons within this container and nowhere else. Now, I'll probably refactor this myself uh behind the scenes uh but it will be available in the GitHub repo. All right, so the cloud code has finished refactoring our delete buttons u and let's see if it did a good job. So, we have a lot of changes in here. And the reason for that is because I prompted Claude to essentially uh create a JavaScript file for each page because it was trying to stuff everything into the app.js and there is no reason to load uh all of these things on every single page. This way we can have a JavaScript file for each page like the one for dashboard for categories for tasks and only load the things that we need because as you can imagine you may want to refactor other parts to use JavaScript as well and you don't want to load all of those things up on every single page and then vit handles that uh really well because we can specify the JavaScript files in here and then load them in each individual uh files. So here for example in the app layout it added a stack scripts here and then I assume it's pushing the files from other um pages. So we have the categories and it's probably yeah it's doing the push scripts and it's pushing the categories index JavaScript here and so on. And I think that's fine. There are better ways of doing this, but for a vanilla JavaScript and blade view template, I think this is okay. I probably would have put the stock scripts in the head and not in the end of the body since the vit adds the type module anyways that makes them deferred. So, uh, it doesn't really need to be in here. So, I would probably move this out of here into the end of the head here. Um, and let's see what else it did. So it removed the init task completion handlers from here and I assume it put this inside the tasks index and in dashboard. Yeah. So it put it here along with the init task delete handlers and also in the dashboard. Then for the categories we have the init category delete handlers. Um, and then for recurring tasks, we have the recurring delete handlers. And all of those are being loaded from the tasks.js. Now, I would have probably done this a little differently, but since we only have a few, I I don't think it's a big deal. So, let's investigate how it did it. So, we have the init delete handlers, and all of them seem to use the same function, which is good. So, it's reusable. It's passing a selector for the button. uh it's passing the URL builder looks like. So it's the URL essentially where it needs to make the delete request. So it's passing the row selector to remove the row from the table. So let's see how this is implemented. So we have the same global event listener on click. Uh we are confirming with the user if they're sure they want to delete this item. We're getting the ID from the data ID attribute. We're getting the URL. We are calling the delete resource passing the euro and button and if it was deleted we get the closest row selector and we remove it from the DOM and I think that's pretty straightforward for delete resource it's disabling the button making the HTTP delete request and returning true or returning false otherwise and reenabling the button. There was one other thing that I added and that is for the HTTP client here. In here I added this get error messages and added support for 403 and 404. In case user doesn't have permission, we want to show some kind of message, right? So we will display you do not have permission to perform this action for 404. The requested resource was not found. Uh and we can add other status codes here if we wanted to. That way if the status is not part of the list that we defined here, we just show an unexpected error has occurred. All right. So I think uh we can test it out. It also updated the controllers appropriately. So yeah, they don't return anything which is expected. Uh the controller same. I would have probably done something like return response no content. It just makes more sense to me. So, I'm just going to do it this way and do the same thing in here and update this…

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