Laravel resource controller difference between edit and update

Question

In laravel when using Route::resource() the controller contains 7 methods. I am unsure what the differences are between the edit and update methods / resources.

GET         /resource/{resource}/edit   edit    resource.edit
PUT/PATCH   /resource/{resource}        update  resource.update

In my understanding of REST, it seems laravels update implementation is fairly standard while the edit route I can't see to think of a scenario to use it when returning resources as JSON.

Answer 1

The difference is that edit is used to return the HTML form that is used to edit the resource values (notice that it responds to GET requests), while updateis the "action" that the edit form will be submitting to, and it responds to PUT or PATCH requests.