Notifications

- [Narrator] We've been up to this point … writing custom logic and custom classes for handling … sending out notifications. … However, Laravel has a much better tool, … natively, for handling this. … It uses a class called Notifications, … appropriately enough. … To build this, we'll do the same thing we've done before … with using the Laravel console … to build the notification class. … We'll go to our terminal application, and run the command: … php artisan make:notification … Reservation. … This class should be available for us by looking … in our text editor, … and going to App, … Notifications, Reservation.php. … When we open up, we can see … all the features Laravel provides us for … this notification class. … We have a via method on line 30. … This via method determines the various channels … our notifications can be sent with. … In this case, it's only mail. … However, Laravel has logic to send notifications … to a variety of API's, … broadcasted as a websocket live notification, …