Just, send an email

While Laravel provides many ways of building an email to allow for customization, I found this way to be the most straight-forward:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable as Message;

Mail::send((new Message)
    ->to('johndoe@domain.com', 'John Doe')
    ->subject('My awesome email')
    ->view('mail.basic')
);

That's it. 😏 As long as your SMTP credentials are valid, you are on your way. If you're like "yeah, how else would you do it?", congratulations. 👏 I just happen to be the kind of person who initially tends to treat these things like spacecrafts. 🛸

P.s. In case you're wondering: I used an alias for Mailable, because... well, I find Message way more readable. Just a personal preference, doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the code.

🎁 Bonus

For those who are a fan of convenient helpers:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable as Message;

if (! function_exists('email')) {
    /**
     * Just, send an email.
     *
     * @param  string  $to  The email recipient.
     * @param  string  $subject  The email subject.
     * @param  string  $view  The name of the Blade view.
     * @param  array  $data  The data for the Blade view.
     * 
     * @return \Illuminate\Mail\SentMessage|null
     */
    function email(string $to, string $subject, string $view, array $data = null) {
      return Mail::send((new Message)->to($to)->subject($subject)->view($view, $data);
    }
};

Which would look like this in practice:

// it doesn't get more concise than this, right? 
email(
  to:'elon@x.com', 
  subject:'eXample 🥁', 
  view:'mail.example', 
  data:['logo' => 'x']
);

Conclusion

These examples demonstrate a more efficient way of sending an email using Laravel. While some may argue that it's obvious, or it's actually limiting your options, I personally consider the easiest solutions to be the most effective.

Thank you for reading! 👍