Include blade template view with \App\template_path load more javascript

So I’m running Sage 9 and creating an AJAX load more news script that works except for whenever it returns new posts it adds a “1” at the end of the response and I can’t understand why.

This is my javascript:

$(document).ready(function() {
	let currentPage = 1;
	$('#load-more').on('click', function() {
		currentPage++;
		$.ajax({
			type: 'POST',
			url: '/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php',
			dataType: 'html',
			data: {
				action: 'load_more_posts',
				paged: currentPage,
			},
			success: function (res) {
				$('.publication-list').append(res);
			}
		});
	})
});

And this is my function:

function load_more_posts() {
  $ajaxposts = new WP_Query([
    'post_type' => 'nyheter',
    'posts_per_page' => 6,
    'orderby' => 'date',
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'paged' => $_POST['paged'],
  ]);
  $response = '';
  if($ajaxposts->have_posts()) {
    while($ajaxposts->have_posts()) : $ajaxposts->the_post();
      $response .= include \App\template_path(locate_template('views/partials/cardNews.blade.php'));
    endwhile;
  } else {
    $response = '';
  }
  echo $response;
  exit;
}
add_action('wp_ajax_load_more_posts', 'load_more_posts');
add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_load_more_posts', 'load_more_posts');

Whenever I click “load more” it returns 6 news as it should but it ends with “111111” (one 1 for every post). Can’t for my life understand why. if I change the function from this:

$response .= include \App\template_path(locate_template('views/partials/cardNews.blade.php'));

To this:

$response = include \App\template_path(locate_template('views/partials/cardNews.blade.php'));

It will only return one “1” at the end. But I don’t understand where it comes from and how to get rid of it. Does anyone have any ideas or how I could solve it? Everything works great otherwise.

Image of the return:

Thanks

I’d start out by throwing out admin-ajax entirely. The WP REST API has been stable and available for quite a while by now.

Alright, not entirely sure how to do that though?