Send Notifications in Laravel with Firebase Cloud Messaging and Notifire

Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is a cross-platform messaging solution that enables you to send messages reliably. If you need to use FCM with Laravel, Abdelrazek Kandil has created Notifire, a package for sending FCM notifications with support for Laravel's notification system.

#Features

• Easy integration with Laravel's notification system
• Support for both simple and complex FCM messages
• Fluent interface for building notifications
• Automatic logging of notification delivery status
• Database migration for storing FCM tokens
• Configurable default settings

Note: Ensure you already have a Firebase account and project configured, as you will need your Firebase Project ID from the Firebase Console as well as your Firebase service account credentials, which should be stored in a /storage/firebase.json file.

You can install this package using Composer, publish the package files, and run the migrations:

composer require devkandil/notifire
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="DevKandil\NotiFire\FcmServiceProvider"
php artisan migrate

There are also some changes you will need to make to your User model, for example, adding the fcm_token field to your User model's $fillable array.

The package comes with an API endpoint /fcm/token in the built-in FcmController. The endpoint is automatically registered with the Laravel Sanctum authentication middleware so ensure Sanctum is already installed and your user is authenticated before making a request to the endpoint.

You can also add the HasFcm trait to your User model to easily manage FCM tokens. For example:

$user->getFcmToken();
$user->updateFcmToken($token);

#Example

use DevKandil\NotiFire\Facades\Fcm;
 
$user = Auth::user();
$fcmToken = $user->getFcmToken();
 
$success = Fcm::withTitle('Laracon US Recap')
    ->withBody('Check out everything that was announced at Laracon US')
    ->withImage('https://example.com/image.jpg')
    ->withIcon("notification_icon")
    ->withColor("#FF5733")
    ->withSound('default')
    ->sendNotification($fcmToken);

Using the Laravel Notification system, you could create a new Notification class like the following:

namespace App\Notifications;
 
use DevKandil\NotiFire\Enums\MessagePriority;
use DevKandil\NotiFire\FcmMessage;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;
 
class NewAnnouncement extends Notification
{
    use Queueable;
 
    public function via(object $notifiable): array
    {
        return ['fcm'];
    }
 
    /**
     * Get the FCM representation of the notification.
     */
    public function toFcm(object $notifiable): FcmMessage
    {
        return FcmMessage::create('Laravel AI Boost', 'Laravel AI Boost is coming soon!')
            ->image('https://example.com/image.jpg')
            ->sound('default')
            ->clickAction('OPEN_ACTIVITY')
            ->icon('notification_icon')
            ->color('#FF5733')
            ->priority(MessagePriority::HIGH)
            ->data([
                'timestamp' => now()->toIso8601String(),
            ]);
    }
}

And then trigger the notification with:

use \App\Notifications;
 
$user->notify(new NewAnnouncement());

Learn more about this package and view the source code on GitHub.