Get most recent row with group by and Laravel

Question

Even though there are multiple questions like this I can\'t get my query to return the row with the most recent date with a group by.

I have the following table..

Answer 1

To get most recent record for each from you can use a self join

DB::table('message as m')
  ->select('m.*')
  ->leftJoin('message as m1', function ($join) {
        $join->on('m.from', '=', 'm1.from')
             ->whereRaw(DB::raw('m.created_at < m1.created_at'));
   })
  ->whereNull('m1.from')
  ->orderBy('m.created_at', 'DESC')
  ->paginate(10);

In SQL it will look like

select m.*
from message m
left join message m1 on m.from = m1.from
and m.created_at < m1.created_at
where m1.from is null
order by m.created_at desc

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