Inventory — Laravel Mini Showcase

A tiny inventory app to demonstrate PHP/Laravel + Bootstrap + Ajax.

Features

• Form: Product name, Quantity in stock, Price per item
• Ajax submit (no page reload)
• Table ordered by Datetime submitted
• Per-row Total value = quantity × price
• Footer sum of all Totals
• Edit and Delete each line via Ajax
• Download JSON (storage/app/data.json)

Tech

• Laravel 11, PHP 8.2+
• Bootstrap 5
• No database — data is persisted to a JSON file for zero-config spin-up

Quickstart

Prereqs

• PHP ≥ 8.2 and Composer installed

Run locally

# install dependencies
composer install

# set up env and app key
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

# start dev server
php artisan serve
# open http://127.0.0.1:8000


Endpoints

GET / — UI

GET /products — list (JSON)

POST /products — create

PUT /products/{id} — update

DELETE /products/{id} — delete

GET /export — download JSON

Data File

Path: storage/app/data.json

Format: array of objects

[
  {
    "id": "uuid",
    "product_name": "Widget",
    "quantity": 2,
    "price": 10.5,
    "datetime_submitted": "2025-10-06T12:00:00Z",
    "total_value": 21.0
  }
]

Notes

All create/update/delete actions are done via Ajax; the footer shows a live sum of all Total value cells.

To reset the app, you can clear storage/app/data.json and put [].

License

MIT

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