Laravel Eloquent pagination and column sorting using macros

EloquentSortableServiceProvider.php

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class EloquentSortableServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        Builder::macro('sort', function () {
            $sort = explode(',', request()->sort, 2);
            if (empty($sort[1])) {
                return $this;
            }
            return $this->orderBy($sort[0], $sort[1]);
        });

        Request::macro('sortBy', function ($field) {
            $query =  request()->query();

            // go back to the page 1 and sort by $field asc by default
            if (empty($query['sort'])) {
                return request()->url() . '?sort=' . $field . ',asc';
            }

            // 'sort' is set but the 'field' is empty ? reload
            $sort = explode(',', request()->sort, 2);
            if (empty($sort[1])) {
                return request()->fullUrl();
            }

            // if the current 'order' is 'asc' then return 'desc' and so.
            $sort = '?sort=' . $field . ',' . ($sort[1] == 'asc' ? 'desc' : 'asc');

            return request()->url() . $sort;
        });
    }

    /**
     * Register any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register()
    {
        //
    }
}

// Create this service provider and edit your config/app.php file to add:
'providers' => [
    //...
    \App\Providers\EloquentSortableServiceProvider::class,
    //...
]

// Usage: call sort() method before the paginate()
Route::get('/', function () {
    $users = \App\User::sort()->paginate(10);
    return view('users', compact('users'));
});

// Then you can easily build the links using the request() helper
// calling the sortBy() method and passing the name of the field of your table

<a href="{{request()->sortBy('name')}}">Name</a>
    
// Finally don't forget to add this when you call the links() method to persist the new "sort" param
{{ $users->appends(['sort' => request()->sort])->links() }}