This is how you can use jQuery to POST data and retrieve it within the controllers. To Send Data: First off on the page where you are POSTing data from, you need to have a CSRF_TOKEN as a meta tag. <meta name="csrf_token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}" /> Then in the JavaScript, pull the token and send it along with the POST as headers. <script type="text/javascript"> var CSRF_TOKEN = $('meta[name="csrf_token"]').attr('content'); var jsonData = "{ 'data' : 'data' }"; $.ajax({ url: '/route/path', type: 'POST', data: jsonData, headers: { 'X-CSRF-TOKEN': CSRF_TOKEN }, dataType: 'JSON', success: function (data) { } }); </script> To Retrieve Data: Setup a post route in /app/Http/routes...