We use laravel-eloquent-joins by Fico99 to provide the easy ability to sort and search by data fields
Use php artisan make:alwtable
If you wish to format some date on the returned collection use either a model mutator
https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/eloquent-mutators
or use a collection map function
https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/eloquent-collections
Enjoy!