PaginatesModels

This trait adds a super duper handy method that will give you behaviour from requests slightly similar to what something like league/fractal gives you without all the setup and needing to create transformers.

Between this trait, and Eloquent Models' $casts and $hidden properties, starting a basic API with about as much control as some more heavyweight packages give you, will be really quick.

Install

composer require ryanwinchester/laravel-paginates

Usage

Add it to your controller (or base controller, as shown):

// ...
use RyanWinchester\Paginates\PaginatesModels;

class Controller extends BaseController
{
    use AuthorizesRequests, DispatchesJobs, ValidatesRequests, PaginatesModels;
}

Then use it in your controller methods like so:

class ProductsController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $products = $this->paginate(Product::class);

        return response()->json($products);
    }
}

Sometimes because of security or privacy, you may want to limit include relationships and/or columns. If that is the case, then be sure to include the parameters you want, making sure to exclude any user-supplied include parameters.

$products = $this->paginate(
    Product::class,
    $request->except(['include', 'columns'])
);

Or, say you want to define some included relationships yourself:

$products = $this->paginate(
    Product::with('variations'),
    $request->except(['include', 'columns'])
);

Or, even limit to specific columns:

$products = $this->paginate(
    Product::select(['id', 'price', 'in_stock']),
    $request->except('columns')
);

You can pass in any builder instance or a model class name.

Parameters:

• page : page=3 the page number
• perPage : perPage=10 amount to show per page
• columns : columns=title,body,author limit to certain columns
• include : include=categories,tags load relations
• orderBy : orderBy=published|desc order the items by a column and direction

In action

Then you can go to your route and add some of these optional parameters to page and filter:

Please try it out and give feedback.

Taylor thinks it's a good idea, so I mean what other reason do you need?