Preview Mail Notification in browser

Question

With Laravel, according to the documentation, I can return a Mailable via a controller to display it in the browser. It helps to preview mails.

Is there a way to preview Mail Notifications in browser?

I tried:

return (new MyNotification())->toMail($some_user);

But it does not work:

The Response content must be a string or object implementing __toString(), "object" given.

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 07 '19 at 19:15

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In your controller's function :

 $message = (new \App\Notifications\MyNotification())->toMail('example@gmail.com');    
 $markdown = new \Illuminate\Mail\Markdown(view(), config('mail.markdown'));

return $markdown->render('vendor.notifications.email', $message->data());

Just change the name of the notification class (and also pass arguments if necessary) and hit the url in your browser to see the preview.

edited Jun 07 '19 at 19:15

Slava V

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answered Dec 03 '18 at 17:04

black_belt

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nicely done. Thank you for sharing. Finally I am at rest after searching for 2 days :) – Pushkraj Jori May 16 '22 at 15:16

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered May 18 '19 at 18:11

In Laravel 5.8 you can now preview it just like you would a Mailable.

Route::get('mail-preview', function () {
    return (new MyNotification())->toMail($some_user);
});

More details here: https://sampo.co.uk/blog/previewing-mail-notifications-in-laravel-just-got-easier

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 05 '18 at 10:41

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You can't render Notification. You can render Mailable that you use in toMail(). For example if that Mailable is called SomeMailable:

public function toMail($user)
{
    return (new SomeMailable($user))->to($user->email);
}

Then you can render the Mailable with:

return new SomeMailable($some_user);

answered Feb 05 '18 at 10:41

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It seems Laravel does not return a Mailable by default (and I'm not sure it's possible) in a notification: in my case it returns a `Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage` – rap-2-h Feb 05 '18 at 10:43
@rap-2-h my point is you should forget about trying to render Notification and render Mailable class instead. – Alexey Mezenin Feb 05 '18 at 10:44
Hm OK! I will wait a bit before validating your answer, maybe someone will find a kind of way/hack for this. Anyway, Thanks! +1 – rap-2-h Feb 05 '18 at 10:45
@rap-2-h no problem. – Alexey Mezenin Feb 05 '18 at 10:46
Though this answer has important mentions, prefered @BenSampo's one: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56201638/842768 – giovannipds Nov 28 '19 at 17:38
Checkout @CodeSeeker's post (https://stackoverflow.com/a/59934386/59987607#59987607) for a great solution – diakosavvasn Feb 05 '20 at 17:11

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 15 '19 at 10:06

For me, with the particular notification that I wanted to preview toMail() method required a Notifiable instance rather than just an email address, so the following code was what worked for me:

    $notification = new \Illuminate\Auth\Notifications\VerifyEmail();

    $user = \App\User::where('email', 'example@gmail.com')->first(); // Model with Notifiable trait

    $message = $notification->toMail($user);

    $markdown = new \Illuminate\Mail\Markdown(view(), config('mail.markdown'));

    return $markdown->render('vendor.notifications.email', $message->toArray());

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 21 '19 at 03:15

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Try this (Test pass after Laravel 5.6)

$message = (new \App\Notifications\YourNotification()->toMail($notifiable);

return app()->make(\Illuminate\Mail\Markdown::class)->render($message->markdown, $message->data());

answered Aug 21 '19 at 03:15

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