Laravel Search by Query/Tag With Auto Complete - Laravel Scout and Alpine.js

How It Works

For this example, a database scout driver is used.

// ...
 
SCOUT_DRIVER=database

The Searchable trait must be added to the Eloquent models from which search you will want to do. A good practice would be to add searchable fields to the toSearchableArray() method as an array in the model.

app/Models/Category.php:

use Laravel\Scout\Searchable;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
 
class Category extends Model
{
    use Searchable;
 
    // ...
 
    public function toSearchableArray(): array
    {
        return [
            'id'   => $this->id,
            'name' => $this->name,
        ];
    }
}

app/Models/Product.php:

use Laravel\Scout\Searchable;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
 
class Product extends Model
{
    use Searchable;
 
    // ...
 
    public function toSearchableArray(): array
    {
        return [
            'id'    => $this->id,
            'title' => $this->title,
            'code'  => $this->code,
        ];
    }
}

Next, we will:

• Set up the Search Blade component
• Set up the Search Controller