Slack Notification using Webhook URI in Laravel 9

Slack notification is very well documented in the Laravel official documentation, but I feel like the process from prepping our Laravel project to fire slack notifications to creating a Slack app and generating a webhook URL might be cumbersome for some.

So, in this blog, we will be reviewing how to setup our Laravel app so that we can fire Slack notifications to our user's accounts.

Let's start by creating a new Laravel application. Simply run the code below in your terminal to do that.

Once the project is created, open it in a text editor, setup your database connections in your .env file, then run the following codes in your terminal.

Then head to SlackNotification at App\Notifications\SlackNotification and modify the code as follows below.

Once we done with that, we head to the model we'd be using to fire our slack notifications and add the following lines of code. (Don't forget to import the Notifiable trait in your designated model or else notifications won't work).

Now we can head to Slack, create an app, generate a webhook URL for the channel we wish to receive notifications into, then copy that URL and paste it into the routeNotificationForSlack method above.

Then create a new route and fire a dummy notification to slack

If you followed correctly to this point, you should have received a notification in your designated slack channel.

Now, some might be confused about how to setup a slack app cuz we didn't see that in this tutorial. Don't sweat it, I'll be releasing a new tutorial on that alongside a video playback for those who feel more comfortable watching videos.

Thanks for your time and see you soon. Cheers.