Deleting with Axios and Laravel

With a RESTful Controller you will typically have methods to show, list, update, edit and destroy (delete) the entity in question. The controller methods map to HTTP methods (verbs) such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.

Not all browsers support all of the HTTP methods. The PUT and DELETE requests might actually be sent as a POST request, but with the _method parameter included to tell Laravel’s routing system what to do with the request. When that hint is present Laravel will use it to determine the type of request, rather than the actual HTTP request method.

If you are making these HTTP requests with Axios then you might find some of the calls are failing with a 405 Method Not Allowed error.

This is due to the way Axios sends POST, PUT and DELETE requests. You may need to actually POST the request and include the _method hint in the request data instead.

Example JavaScript

axios.post('/myentity/839', {
  _method: 'DELETE'
})
.then( response => {
   //handle success
})
.catch( error => {
   //handle failure
})

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