Laravel Livewire 3 Filter Architecture (Part 2)

In this second part, I’ll walk you through the component architecture behind this solution — how I structured the Livewire components, delegated logic to services, and enabled event-driven communication across the system.

Livewire 3 in the Presentation Layer

It’s important to understand that Livewire 3 operates in the presentation layer of your application. It’s responsible for:

• Handling the user interface

• Synchronizing data with the backend

• Updating the page reactively without reloading the entire page

Common Pitfall: Bloated Components

Many developers mistakenly treat Livewire components as a place for business logic or data access.

While Livewire can directly access models and repositories, this leads to bloated, hard-to-maintain components.

Instead, treat Livewire as the bridge between the browser and your application logic:

Livewire (presentation layer)

• Receives data
• Renders views
• Validates inputs
• Dispatches events

Application layer (services, DTOs, queries)

• Handles data fetching
• Processes business rules
• Performs calculations

Key Components

The system consists of three Livewire 3 components:

1️⃣ Filters – manages filter UI, SEO meta tags, and filter payload

2️⃣ Products – handles fetching product data and pagination

3️⃣ ProductsSummarize – displays a summary of the product count and reacts to product events

Filters: Responsibilities

The Filters component:

• Parses filters from the current URL
• Loads available filter options for the selected category
• Maps selected filter values from the query
• Transforms raw filters into a frontend-friendly structure
• Dispatches SEO meta tag updates (title, description, canonical, robots)

Main Dependencies

public function boot( CategoryFiltersResolver $categoryFiltersResolver, FilterStateMapper $filterStateMapper, UrlFiltersParser $urlFiltersParser, FiltersToViewDataTransformer $viewDataTransformer, CurrentUrlFilterState $currentUrlFilterState, PageSeoDataProvider $pageSeoDataProvider ) 

Each service has a single responsibility:

Note:

PageSeoDataProvider plays a key role in this architecture:

It ensures that all SEO-related data — meta titles, H1 titles, robots index/noindex rules — are dynamically calculated on the server. These values adapt to the current filter state, the selected country, and other business-specific conditions, guaranteeing accurate and SEO-optimized output for each filter combination.

View code on GitHub Gist

Products: Responsibilities

The Products component:

• Listens for events like filter-updated, page-changed, and sort-updated
• Fetches the filtered product list and pagination data
• Dispatches products-updated events to inform other components

Main Dependencies

public function boot( ProductsProvider $productsProvider, Pagination $paginationService, UrlFiltersParser $urlFiltersParser, LocalizationInfo $localizationInfo, CurrentUrlFilterState $currentUrlFilterState ) 

View code on GitHub Gist

ProductsSummarize: Responsibilities

The ProductsSummarize component is purely presentational:

• It listens for products-loaded and products-updated events
• It updates the summary bar in real-time based on those events

#[On('products-loaded')] #[On('products-updated')] public function updateSummarize(int $foundProducts, int $totalInCategory): void { $this->foundProducts = $foundProducts; $this->totalProductsInCategory = $totalInCategory; } 

View code on GitHub Gist

Event-Driven Communication

My components don’t depend directly on each other. Instead, they communicate via Livewire events:

Why not use Livewire’s #[Url]?

Livewire’s #[Url] is excellent for simple reactive inputs (like search bars). However, for this project I needed:

• Full control over canonical and localized URLs
• Server-driven SEO meta data (title, canonical, robots)
• Advanced rules (like noindex for certain filter combinations)
• Structured filter state — not just flat query parameters

That’s why I implemented a dedicated UrlFiltersParser and SEO data services.

It’s more work — but it ensures perfect SEO, clean architecture, and no SSR/hydration issues.

Testing

All critical logic — filter parsing, product loading, and SEO meta data generation — lives in dedicated services. These services are fully covered by unit tests (e.g., PHPUnit).

For Livewire components, I rely on Livewire’s testing utilities to verify event dispatching and UI state updates.

Summary

This architecture delivers:

• Loosely coupled, reusable components with a clear separation of UI and logic
• Thin and reactive components — no bloated logic or hard dependencies
• Dedicated, testable services that handle business logic (e.g., filter parsing, SEO generation)
• Event-driven communication through Livewire events, ensuring no direct dependencies
• Server-driven, indexable SEO data (title, canonical, robots) — safe for SSR and search engines
• No frontend frameworks — no JavaScript duplication or hydration issues

In Part 3, I’ll explain the role of the JS bridge and how it supports a smooth, dynamic UI experience.

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