An even better way to handle conditional notifications

In a previous tip, I shared some ideas on handling conditional notifications.

Shortly after posting, Newton shared another approach which is even better for this exact use case.

Inside the notification class, you can define a shouldSend method to centralize that conditional logic.

Using this with my previous example, it would look like this:

public function shouldSend(object $notifiable, string $channel): bool
{
    // add whatever logic you want to determine if the notification should be sent
    
    // return true if it should be sent, false otherwise
}

Now I don't need to emit an event and wire up a listener, and I also don't spread this conditional logic multiple places in my app.

And this has been there since Laravel 8!

Here to help,

Joel

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