Laravel 5.4 - Jquery Ajax Method post does not exist - laravel

Question

I am getting this error Method post does not exist., and I can't figure it out what is going on. My routes:
Route::group(['middleware' => ['auth']], function () {
Route::get('/', 'SiteController#index');
Route::get('/dashboard', 'DashboardController#index')->middleware('role');
Route::post('/search', 'UserController#search')->middleware('role');
});
HTML code:
<form class="navbar-form" role="search" id="employees-search">
<div class="input-group add-on col-md-6">
<div class="input-group-btn">
<button class="btn btn-default" type="submit"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-search"></i> </button>
</div>
<input class="form-control" placeholder="Search" name="employee-name" id="employee-name" type="text">
</div>
</form>
JS code:
$.ajaxSetup({
headers: {
'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
}
});
// Search users
$('#employees-search').on('keyup', '#employee-name', function(){
let
$this = $(this),
name = $this.val();
if(name.length > 2){
$.ajax({
url: '/search',
type: 'POST',
data: $('#employees-search').serialize(),
contentType: 'application/json',
dataType: 'json',
})
.done(function() {
console.log("success");
})
.fail(function() {
console.log("error");
})
.always(function() {
console.log("complete");
});
}
})
UserController:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class UserController extends Controller
{
public function search(Request $request)
{
dd($request->post('employee-name'));
}
}
What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

The Illuminate\Http\Request class does not have a post() method. You're looking for input().
dd($request->input('employee-name'));