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

I like a simpler approach which is mentioned here.

In your User model additionally to existing messages() relationship, add this relationship

public function latestMessage() 
{
    return $this->hasOne(Message::class, 'recipient_id')->latest();
}

Then when you query simply query like this.

$messages = User::with('latestMessage')->get();

$messages contains latest message per user.

Edit

In order to order the result by datetime/id you could do it like this.

$messages = User::with(['latestMessage' => function($message) {
    $message->orderBy('id', 'desc');
}])->get();

$messages contains latest message per user ordered by id. Refer this answer