Send Laravel notification without entity

Question

I understand that with Laravel notifications I can use

Notification::send(User::first(), new TodoCompleted($task));

But what if I want to send a notification, to Slack in my case, with some custom details stored in an array ( $task in the example above) but without having to pass a entity/model ( User::first() in the example above). Is that possible?

Answer 1

To send a notification without using model you will want to use on demand notifications :

Notification::route('slack', 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/...')
        ->notify(new TodoCompleted($task));

Just replace https://hooks.slack.com/services/... with the url that you would usually return from the routNotificationForSlack method.