paginate find if data returned is empty laravel 5.4 and display custom message

I recently added pagination in Laravel project. so I receive json data like this:

{"per_page":1,"current_page":1,"next_page_url":null,"prev_page_url":null,"from":null,"to":null,"data":[]}

before I use to get []

so my if condition use to be

@if($send_requests == '[]')

How can I check if data is empty in above json ?

I tried:

@if($send_requests->data == '[]')

it does not seem to work like that.

via Chebli Mohamed