Server-Driven Data Tables with Laravel, Inertia and React: Filters, Sorting and Pagination in the URL
Every business app eventually grows a table that people live in: products, invoices, suppliers, open orders. The first version is easy. Load everything, render a , maybe add a client-side filter. Then the table hits 40,000 rows, someone asks for "sort by stock, only active items, page 3", and a colleague wants to send that exact view to a manager as a link. This post shows the pattern I use for server-driven data tables with Laravel, Inertia and React: the server does the filtering, sorting and…