Laravel backend for adding tags to the Employbl candidate application

CandidateController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\User;
use Spatie\Tags\Tag;

class CandidateController extends Controller
{
    
    public function edit($id)
    {
        $candidate = auth()->user();

        if ($candidate->id != $id) {
            abort(403, 'Forbidden');
        }

        // Get all the available tags candidates can select
        $allTags = Tag::getWithType('candidate')->map(function ($tag) {
            return $tag->only(['name']);
        })->pluck('name');

        $candidate->load([
            'tags'
         ]);
        
        // Only grab the name of the tags the candidate has (not the whole tag object)
        $candidateTags = $candidate->tags->map(function($tag) {
            return $tag->name;
        });

        return view('candidates.edit', compact('candidate', 'allTags', 'candidateTags'));
    }

    public function update(Request $request, $id)
    {
        $candidate = auth()->user();
        if ($candidate->id != $id) {
            abort(403, 'Forbidden. You can only update your own profile.');
        }

        $request->validate(
            [
                'summary' => 'nullable|string',
            ]
        );

        $user = User::find($id);

        $user->summary = trim($request->input('summary'));

        $tags = $request->input('tags');
        $user->attachTags($tags);

        $user->save();

        return response()->json(
            [
                'message'   => '🎉 You updated your profile!',
                'candidate' => $user,
            ]
        );
    }
}

CandidateTagSeeder.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Spatie\Tags\Tag;

class CandidateTagsSeeder extends Seeder
{
    public function run()
    {
        // Storing possible tags in a Google docs
        // Use formula: =ArrayFormula(""""&Sheet1!A:D&"""") for adding quotes
        // https://delim.co/ can add commas
        $allTags = ["Javascript","PHP","Ruby","Ruby On Rails","AWS","Node.js","MongoDB","Laravel","Python","Django","React.js","Vue.js","jQuery","Marketing","Content Marketing","Product Marketing","Product Management","Project Management","Customer Success","Sales","Recruiting","Human Resources","UX Design","UI Design","Design","Software Engineering","Java","MySQL","Customer Support","SQL","Google Cloud","DevOps","Chef","Puppet","Leadership","New Grad","MBA Grad","ES6","Director Level","C level","Bootcamp grad","PostgreSQL","Marketo","Salesforce","Hungry to learn","Willing to travel","Wordpress","HTML","CSS","Photoshop","Go lang","Elixir","Angular","ElasticSearch","Angular.js","Entry level","Security","Penetration testing","Non-profit experience","Supply chain","Logistics","US Military Veteran","Executive Assistant","Graphic Design","C#","Gaming",".NET","Mobile","Android","iOS","Swift","Kotlin","Git","Hadoop","Machine Learning","Data Science","Artificial Intelligence","SQL Server"];

        foreach ($allTags as $tagName) {
            Tag::findOrCreate($tagName, 'candidate');
        }
    }
}

Feel free to create a candidate profile on Employbl: https://employbl.com/candidates

Full Medium tutorial here: https://medium.com/employbl/build-tagging-with-vue-multiselect-and-laravel-tags-960c260df438