Refine for Laravel Nova

Refine is a powerful, visual query builder for Laravel Nova 3 and 4. Refine is a paid package, which you can purchase at hammerstone.dev.

We also have libraries for Laravel (without Nova) and Ruby on Rails at hammerstone.dev.

Refine lets you define filterable conditions per resource, and then your users can mix and match them in any way they want to find exactly what they're looking for.

// Create a filter called "UserFilter"
class UserFilter extends Filter
{
    public function conditions()
    {
        return [
            // Number condition on the ID column
            NumericCondition::make('id', 'ID'),
            
            // Text condition on the name column
            TextCondition::make('name', 'Name'),
            
            // Boolean condition on the is_subscriber column
            BooleanCondition::make('is_subscriber', 'Subscriber'),
            
            // Option condition on the referral column
            OptionCondition::make('referral', 'Referral Source')
                ->options([
                    'twitter' => 'Twitter',
                    'linkedin' => 'LinkedIn',
                    'fb' => 'Facebook'
                ]),
                
            // Date condition on the created_at column
            DateWithTimeCondition::make('created_at', 'Created At'),
        ];
    }
}

Refine for Laravel Nova 4

Refine for Laravel Nova 3

Installation

To use Refine with Nova, you must first require the package composer require hammerstone/refine-nova. This will install hammerstone/refine-laravel as well. Since refine-laravel is a paid package, you will need to make sure your credentials are available to composer in the auth.json file.

Integration

Create a UserFilter class in your app\Filters directory.

namespace App\Filters;

use Hammerstone\Refine\Conditions\NumericCondition;
use Hammerstone\Refine\Filter;

class UserFilter extends Filter
{
    public function conditions()
    {
        return [
            NumericCondition::make('id', 'ID'),
            
            // @TODO: Add more conditions
        ];
    }
}

In your app\Nova\User file, you'll need to add the RefinesModels trait and reference your newly created filter.

use App\Filters\UserFilter;
use Hammerstone\Refine\Nova\RefinesModels;

class User extends Resource
{
    use RefinesModels;
    
    // ...
    
    public static $filter = UserFilter::class;
}

Finally, to show the query builder on the frontend, you'll need to add the Refine card:

public function cards(Request $request)
{
    return [
        static::refineCard()
    ];
}

That's it! You should see the Refine query builder on the Users page in Nova. You can read further documentation about building filters in the Refine documentation.