In this tutorial, you will learn laravel 8 firebase notification example. i would like to show you laravel 8 firebase web push notification. This article goes in detailed on firebase web push notification laravel 8. you’ll learn send firebase push notification using laravel 8.

Today, i will give you simple example of send firebase push notification using laravel.

Firebase provides a realtime database and backend as a service. The service provides application developers an API that allows application data to be synchronized across clients and stored on Firebase’s cloud.

firebase push notification is a free open source and you can easily implement using your google account. here i will give you simple to getting device token of logged in users and then we will send web push notification. so let’s simply follow bellow step to create push notification with laravel app.

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Step 1: Create Firebase Project and App

In first step, we have to go Firebase Console and create a project. then you have to create web app on that project as like i added bellow screenshot:

After given name and next then you will received firebase sdk as like bellow screen shot:

You have to save that all information because we will use in our app.

Step 2: Install Laravel 8

first of all we need to get fresh Laravel 8 application using bellow command, So open your terminal OR command prompt and run bellow command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blogFirebase

Step 3: Create Auth using scaffold

Now, in this step, we will create auth scaffold command to create login, register and dashboard. so run following commands:

Laravel UI Package

composer require laravel/ui 

Generate auth

php artisan ui bootstrap --auth 
npm install
npm run dev

Step 4: Create Migration and Update Model

In this step, we need to add new row “device_token” in users table and model. than we need to create new migration. so let’s create new migration by following command.

php artisan make:migration add_column_device_token

database/migrations/2020_10_23_144523_add_column_device_token.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class AddColumnDeviceToken extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->string('device_token')->nullable();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {

    }
}

app/Models/User.php

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use HasFactory, Notifiable;

    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = [
        'name',
        'email',
        'password',
        'device_token'
    ];

    /**
     * The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $hidden = [
        'password',
        'remember_token',
    ];

    /**
     * The attributes that should be cast to native types.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $casts = [
        'email_verified_at' => 'datetime',
    ];
}

Now we need to run migration.

so let’s run bellow command:

php artisan migrate

Step 5: Create Route

Here, we need to add some routes to store token and send push notification so let’s add that route in web.php file.

routes/web.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

Auth::routes();

Route::get('/home', [App\Http\Controllers\HomeController::class, 'index'])->name('home');
Route::post('/save-token', [App\Http\Controllers\HomeController::class, 'saveToken'])->name('save-token');
Route::post('/send-notification', [App\Http\Controllers\HomeController::class, 'sendNotification'])->name('send.notification');

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