Datatables or Laravel

How do I handle CRUD applications? Let Datatables do thw work? Let Laravel do the work via a REST interface?

Pros and Cons

REST

Softdeletes Easier for auditing Give me more Laravel experience

Validation when using Editor no possible

Datatables

Hard to customise

What am I doing currently?

Use Datatables with the REST interface.

Handle the store and delete myself. Let Datatables do the edit?