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

Why not simply accessing the messages, like this -

// get the authenticated user
$user = \Auth::user(); 

// find the messages for that user
return User::with('message')->find($user->id)->messages;