Dashboard Widgets: Charts and Tables

In this lesson, let's change our dashboard to something more interesting than static placeholders.

Typically, we have charts and numbers on the dashboard of such projects. So, we can calculate something like these:

• Tasks completed vs in progress
• Tasks due today
• Tasks created this week, grouped by day

Let's show them all on the dashboard.

Change Factory and Re-Seed Data

To have some data to show, we need to randomize a few things and seed more tasks.

database/factories/TaskFactory.php:

return [
    'name' => fake()->name(),
    'is_completed' => fake()->boolean(),
    'due_date' => fake()->dateTimeBetween('now', '+1 month'), 
    'created_at' => fake()->dateTimeBetween(now()->startOfWeek(), now()->endOfWeek()), 
];