Laravel verify e-mail preview, render verification email

Question

For a laravel project I want to view how the verify email, email looks. I did run php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-mail and in the documentation I found:

Sometimes you may wish to capture the HTML content of a mailable without sending it. To accomplish this, you may call the render method of the mailable. This method will return the evaluated contents of the mailable as a string:

$invoice = App\Invoice::find(1);

return (new App\Mail\InvoicePaid($invoice))->render();

Is it possible to do something like this for the confirm email, email? I sarched for Mailable in my project but got no results. Is ther another way to view the email without sending it?

Solving it with a route is quite dirty, if I were you, I would install Laravel Telescope and set your mail driver to log. You can then inspect all emails. And install Telescope using --dev. — dbf

wschopohl wschopohl · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-18T19:19:44

Option 1 - Preview in Browser

Add a new route, preferably just in a test set up, that goes like this:

Route::get( '/verify-test', function () {
    // Get a user for demo purposes
    $user = App\User::find(1);
    return (new Illuminate\Auth\Notifications\VerifyEmail())->toMail($user);
}

In my tests with laravel 7 this was enough. I didn't have to publish any notifications. It just rendered nicely in the browser! Of course, if you want to also change the content of the notification it's a good idea to do:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-notifications

The content of the notification is in the file resources/views/vendor/notifications

Laravel Notification Docs

Option 2 - Catch the Mails

What you can always do is either set a mailtrap.io account as smtp server and view the mail there or use the "Universal To" as described in the docs:

// config/mail.php
'to' => [
    'address' => '[email protected]',
    'name' => 'Example'
],

Laravel verify e-mail preview, render verification email

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