Get latest message (row) per user in Laravel

Question

TL;DR: Need latest message from each sender.

In my Laravel application I have two tables:

Users:

• id
• name

Messages:

Answer 1

Taking inspiration from this post, the most efficient way to do this would be like so:

DB::table('messages AS m1')
    ->leftjoin('messages AS m2', function($join) {
        $join->on('m1.sender_id', '=', 'm2.sender_id');
        $join->on('m1.id', '<', 'm2.id')
    })->whereNull('m2.id')
    ->select('m1.sender_id', 'm1.body', 'm1.created_at')
    ->orderBy('m1.created_at', 'm1.desc')->get();

While it is not the most Laravel friendly, it is the best solution based on performance as highlighted by the post linked in this answer above