How to submit a blade.php form with AJAX - php

Question

How should I handle the csrf_field() function when doing this with AJAX?
here is a link to the project repo.
Here is a link to the article which helped me write the code.
I'm pretty sure I don't have to make too many changes to the code to handle the forms with AJAX instead of regular blade.php form submissions, but I'm unsure of the implementation
<form id="add_item" method="POST" action="/item">
<div class="form-group">
<textarea name="item_name" placeholder='Enter your item'></textarea>
#if ($errors->has('item_name'))
<span class="text-danger">{{ $errors->first('item_name') }}</span>
#endif
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<button type="submit" >Add Item</button>
</div>
{{ csrf_field() }}
</form>

Answer 1

you can also put csrf-token in header file like this...
<meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">
then give one unique id to submit button... then after in JavaScript detect that click event. then after call ajax on click event of submit button
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
// url: "{{ route('admin.users')}}" + id,
// url : '/admin/users/',
url: "{{url('admin/users/')}}", // you can pass url using url() OR as simple url OR Route name also
headers: {
'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content') //get the Csrf token from header
},
data: { id: id, }, //pass here all data which you want to pass to controller
success: function (data) {
console.log(data);
}
});

Answer 2

get the csrf value using
var token = $('input[name="csrfToken"]').attr('value');
and append it to the header
$.ajax({
url: route.url,
data : JSON.stringify(data),
method : 'POST',
headers: {
'X-CSRF-Token': token
},
success: function (data) { ... },
error: function (data) { ... }
});
you can read more about it here https://stackoverflow.com/a/51964045/9890762

Answer 3

SOLVED.
I had to remove the 'type' attribute from the form as ajax is being used instead,
and ensure the ajax functions are at /public/js/file.js
Then, to make the changes available to the folder resources
npm run dev
<form id="add_item_form" action="/item">
<div class="form-group">
<textarea id="add_item_name" placeholder='Enter your item'></textarea>
#if ($errors->has('item_name'))
<span class="text-danger">{{ $errors->first('item_name') }}</span>
#endif
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<button id="ajaxSubmit_add">Add Item</button>
</div>
</form>