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

this may be a solution (not tested though)

User::with([
'messages' => function ($q) {
    $q->select('sender_id', 'body')->groupBy('sender_id')->orderBy('created_at', 'desc');
}
])->find(1);