You use Laravel 5 and you want to send a DELETE request without creating a form? This will handle the form-creation bits for you dynamically, similar to the Rails implementation. To use, import script, and create a link with the `data-method="DELETE"` and `data-token="{{csrf_token()}}"` attributes.

laravel.js

/*
Exemples : 
<a href="posts/2" data-method="delete" data-token="{{csrf_token()}}"> 
- Or, request confirmation in the process -
<a href="posts/2" data-method="delete" data-token="{{csrf_token()}}" data-confirm="Are you sure?">
*/


(function() {
 
  var laravel = {
    initialize: function() {
      this.methodLinks = $('a[data-method]');
      this.token = $('a[data-token]');
      this.registerEvents();
    },
 
    registerEvents: function() {
      this.methodLinks.on('click', this.handleMethod);
    },
 
    handleMethod: function(e) {
      var link = $(this);
      var httpMethod = link.data('method').toUpperCase();
      var form;
 
      // If the data-method attribute is not PUT or DELETE,
      // then we don't know what to do. Just ignore.
      if ( $.inArray(httpMethod, ['PUT', 'DELETE']) === - 1 ) {
        return;
      }
 
      // Allow user to optionally provide data-confirm="Are you sure?"
      if ( link.data('confirm') ) {
        if ( ! laravel.verifyConfirm(link) ) {
          return false;
        }
      }
 
      form = laravel.createForm(link);
      form.submit();
 
      e.preventDefault();
    },
 
    verifyConfirm: function(link) {
      return confirm(link.data('confirm'));
    },
 
    createForm: function(link) {
      var form = 
      $('<form>', {
        'method': 'POST',
        'action': link.attr('href')
      });
 
      var token = 
      $('<input>', {
        'type': 'hidden',
        'name': '_token',
        'value': link.data('token')
        });
 
      var hiddenInput =
      $('<input>', {
        'name': '_method',
        'type': 'hidden',
        'value': link.data('method')
      });
 
      return form.append(token, hiddenInput)
                 .appendTo('body');
    }
  };
 
  laravel.initialize();
 
})();

Hey, Thanks alot!

Going to use this in my interview test!
Again! Thanks for the update to 5.0^

Great, thanks for the update :)

Nice job ;)

Thanks! 👍

Hi all,

i've change a little bit to support jQuery promise so you can use any confirm action like bootbox or swal 👍

https://gist.github.com/ghprod/0bb7f8d207ba7838a0e6

Thanks

Thanks! 👍

Got a problem with this. I get redirected to the href link and doesn't trigger the events registered above. However when I do debug console and traverse through the handleMethod it submits fine. Should I place this inside $(function(){})?

It's actually triggering the handleMethod method. However, the reason for the redirection was because the e.preventDefault() wasn't triggered so the link automatically redirects without calling the form.submit() first.

thanks its work!

Cool! 👍

Doesn't work for me, redirects to view method

Same here, doesn't work for me redirecting to view.

Great, thanks for the update :)

no idea why, but doesn't work :(