Loading more eloquent hasMany relation queries through ajax in Laravel?

Do you need to load the first page of replies server-side? I guess since you are willing to load subsequent pages with AJAX you could just handle all client-side and just have an AJAX endpoint that provides the data.

Just make ajax calls to your endpoint passing the status id and page number.

// AjaxControllerpublic function replies(){    $status = Status::findOrFail(request('id'));    return $status->replies()->paginate(3);}

(The page number will be resolved automatically.)

This will return a JSON representation of the paginator, which has the urls for previous and next pages, and the data for the current page. Then just render the data client-side.

What I ended up doing was simply creating a new function in my controller for the request itself, and then sending the ID of the status along with it, along with a skip count (that increases based on how many replies are already loaded) to skip the loaded replies.

public function getReplies($statusID, $skip, Request $request) {    $status = Status::findOrFail($statusID);    $replies = $status->replies()->orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->skip($skip)->take(10)->get();    if($request->ajax()) {        return [            'replies' => view('templates.partials.replies')->with('replies', $replies)->render(),        ];    }   }