Laravel: customize or extend notifications - database model

Question

IMHO, the current Database channel for saving notifications in Laravel is really bad design:

• You can\'t use foreign key cascades on items for cleaning up noti

Answer 1

Create and use your own Notification model and Notifiable trait and then use your own Notifiable trait in your (User) models.

App\Notifiable.php:

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable as BaseNotifiable;

trait Notifiable
{
    use BaseNotifiable;

    /**
     * Get the entity's notifications.
     */
    public function notifications()
    {
        return $this->morphMany(Notification::class, 'notifiable')
                            ->orderBy('created_at', 'desc');
    }
}

App\Notification.php:

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Notifications\DatabaseNotification;

class Notification extends DatabaseNotification
{
    // ...
}

App\User.php:

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable;

    // ...
}