Queued notifications in Laravel - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Queued Notifications in Laravel

📖 Scenario: You are building a Laravel application that sends notifications to users. To improve performance, you want to send notifications using Laravel's queue system so that the user does not wait for the notification to be sent.

🎯 Goal: Build a queued notification system in Laravel that sends a notification to a user asynchronously using Laravel's queue feature.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a notification class that implements the ShouldQueue interface

Set up a queue connection in the configuration

Send the notification to a user using the queue

Ensure the notification is dispatched to the queue properly

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Queued notifications improve user experience by sending emails or messages in the background without making users wait during web requests.

💼 Career

Understanding queued notifications is essential for Laravel developers working on scalable applications that handle email, SMS, or other notifications efficiently.

1

Create a Notification Class

Create a notification class called OrderShipped using the artisan command php artisan make:notification OrderShipped. Then, open the OrderShipped.php file and add the ShouldQueue interface to the class declaration and import it with use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;.

Laravel

// Run the artisan command to create the notification class
// Then open OrderShipped.php and add the ShouldQueue interface
// Your code here

Need a hint?

Remember to import the ShouldQueue interface and add it to the notification class declaration.

2

Configure the Queue Connection

Open the config/queue.php file and set the default queue connection by changing the 'default' key to env('QUEUE_CONNECTION', 'database'). Also, ensure you have run php artisan queue:table and php artisan migrate to create the jobs table.

Laravel

 'sync' to 'default' => env('QUEUE_CONNECTION', 'database')

// Your code here

Need a hint?

Set the default queue connection to 'database' in the config/queue.php file.

3

Send Notification Using Queue

In a controller or route closure, send the OrderShipped notification to a user instance using the notify() method. Use the syntax $user->notify(new OrderShipped()); to dispatch the notification to the queue.

Laravel

<?php

// Assume $user is an instance of App\Models\User
// Send the OrderShipped notification to $user using notify()

// Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the notify() method on the user object to send the notification.

4

Run the Queue Worker

Start the Laravel queue worker by running the command php artisan queue:work in your terminal. This will process the queued notifications and send them asynchronously.

Laravel

// Run the queue worker in the terminal
// Your code here

Need a hint?

Open your terminal and run php artisan queue:work to start processing queued jobs.