Laravel Folio CRUD Tutorial for Beginners: Create, Read, Update & Delete Made Easy

Imagine you're building a blog or a product listing site. You need to:

• Add new posts or items
• View them on a page
• Edit them when needed
• Delete them if no longer useful

This is called CRUD: Create, Read, Update, and Delete.

With Laravel Folio, doing CRUD operations is incredibly simple — especially for beginners.

Let’s walk through building a basic Product Manager using Folio step by step.

🔧 Step 1: Set Up Your Laravel Project

Make sure you’re using Laravel 12, then set up your project:

composer create-project laravel/laravel folio-crud-demo
cd folio-crud-demo
composer require laravel/folio
php artisan folio:install

This creates the resources/views/pages folder where we’ll build all our pages.

🌟 Step 2: Create the Product Model and Migration

Run this command to generate the model:

php artisan make:model Product -m

Open the migration file in database/migrations/...create_products_table.php and define columns:

Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->id();
    $table->string('title');
    $table->text('description');
    $table->decimal('price', 8, 2);
    $table->timestamps();
});

Run the migration:

php artisan migrate

🔃 Step 3: Display All Products (Read)

Create this file:

resources/views/pages/products/index.blade.php

Add this code:

<?php
use App\Models\Product;
use function Laravel\Folio\render;

render(function () {
    $products = Product::all();
    return view('pages.products.index', compact('products'));
});
?>

<h1>All Products</h1>
<a href="/products/create">Add Product</a>
<ul>
    @foreach($products as $product)
        <li>
            <strong>{{ $product->title }}</strong> - ${{ $product->price }}<br>
            <a href="/products/{{ $product->id }}/edit">Edit</a> |
            <form action="/products/{{ $product->id }}/delete" method="POST" style="display:inline">
                @csrf
                <button type="submit">Delete</button>
            </form>
        </li>
    @endforeach
</ul>

➕ Step 4: Create a New Product (Create)

Create this file:

resources/views/pages/products/create.blade.php

<?php
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Product;
use function Laravel\Folio\render;

render(function (Request $request) {
    if ($request->isMethod('post')) {
        $request->validate([
            'title' => 'required',
            'description' => 'required',
            'price' => 'required|numeric',
        ]);

        Product::create($request->only('title', 'description', 'price'));

        return redirect('/products');
    }

    return view('pages.products.create');
});
?>

<h1>Add Product</h1>
<form method="POST">
    @csrf
    <input type="text" name="title" placeholder="Title"><br>
    <textarea name="description" placeholder="Description"></textarea><br>
    <input type="text" name="price" placeholder="Price"><br>
    <button type="submit">Create</button>
</form>

In your model Product.php, make sure you allow mass assignment:

protected $fillable = ['title', 'description', 'price'];

✏️ Step 5: Edit an Existing Product (Update)

Create:

resources/views/pages/products/[id]/edit.blade.php

<?php
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Product;
use function Laravel\Folio\render;

render(function (Request $request, $id) {
    $product = Product::findOrFail($id);

    if ($request->isMethod('post')) {
        $request->validate([
            'title' => 'required',
            'description' => 'required',
            'price' => 'required|numeric',
        ]);

        $product->update($request->only('title', 'description', 'price'));
        return redirect('/products');
    }

    return view('pages.products.edit', compact('product'));
});
?>

<h1>Edit Product</h1>
<form method="POST">
    @csrf
    <input type="text" name="title" value="{{ $product->title }}"><br>
    <textarea name="description">{{ $product->description }}</textarea><br>
    <input type="text" name="price" value="{{ $product->price }}"><br>
    <button type="submit">Update</button>
</form>

❌ Step 6: Delete a Product

Create:

resources/views/pages/products/[id]/delete.blade.php

<?php
use App\Models\Product;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use function Laravel\Folio\render;

render(function (Request $request, $id) {
    $product = Product::findOrFail($id);
    $product->delete();
    return redirect('/products');
});
?>

🔄 Summary: CRUD with Folio is Simple and Clean

With just a few Blade files and no controller or route setup, you now have a fully working CRUD app.

💡 Bonus Tips

• Add form validation to improve UX
• Use layouts for shared design
• Protect edit/create/delete with middleware (auth, etc.)