Delete Post with Confirmation Modal

Now that we can create and edit posts, let's make a delete post action, with the confirmation modal. For the confirmation modal, we will again use the sweetalert2.

First, let's add a new destroy method in the PostController. Don't forget that we don't need to add any additional routes for this Controller methods, because all the routes come from the Route::apiResource() that we added earlier in the routes/api.php.

app/Http/Controllers/Api/PostController.php:

class PostController extends Controller
{
    // ...
    public function destroy(Post $post)
    {
        $post->delete();
 
        return response()->noContent();
    }
}

What to return in this method? It is an open question. It's a common practice to return nothing because the record is deleted. That response()->noContent() would return 204 HTTP Status Code.

Now in the posts Composable, we need to add a new...