Laravel Notifications Tutorial for Beginners

Learn how to implement Laravel Notifications for email, SMS, and Slack. A comprehensive guide to mastering real time alerts in your web applications.

Notifications let you alert users through multiple channels — email, database (for in app alerts), SMS, Slack — all using the same simple, unified syntax. This is different from the Mail system you learned earlier: Notifications are more flexible and can target multiple channels at once. Step 1: Create a Notification php artisan make:notification InvoicePaid This creates app/Notifications/InvoicePaid.php . Step 2: Define the Notification namespace App\Notifications; use App\Models\Invoice; use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable; use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification; use Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage; class InvoicePaid extends Notification { use Queueable; public function construct(public Invoice $invoice) {} public function via($notifiable): array { return ['mail', 'database']; } public function toMail($notifiable): MailMessage { return (new MailMessage) >subject('Invoic...

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