Laravel Toast

Lightweight toast backend with session flash support for Laravel.

It lets you create, collect, and flash toast messages on the backend, while leaving full control over how you render them on the frontend. Pair it with your preferred UI, or use our suggested Livewire/Tailwind frontend.

Frontends

• shufflingpixels/laravel-toast-flux (Livewire Flux + Tailwind + Alpine).

Requirements

• PHP 8.1+
• Laravel 10+ (or illuminate/support >= 10)

Installation

composer require shufflingpixels/laravel-toast

The service provider and facade alias are auto-discovered. You can use the facade Toast immediately.

Concepts

• Message: a typed object with severity, text, optional details, and duration (ms).
• Manager: collects messages during a request and can flash a single message across redirects via session.
• Severities: info, success, warning, error.

Quick Start

Createa toast message in a controller action:

use ShufflingPixels\Toast\Toast;

public function store()
{
    Toast::success('Saved successfully');

    return view('profile');
}

In your Blade view, pull messages and render them however you like:

@php($messages = \ShufflingPixels\Toast\Toast::getMessages())

@if ($messages->isNotEmpty())
    <div class="fixed inset-0 pointer-events-none">
        @foreach ($messages as $message)
            <div class="pointer-events-auto">
                <h3>{{ $message->text }}</h3>
                @if ($message->details)
                    <p>{{ $message->details }}</p>
                @endif
            </div>
        @endforeach
    </div>
@endif

or use one of the frontent packages

Flash Across Redirects

To show a toast on the next request (after redirect), flash the message:

use Toast;

public function update()
{
    Toast::success('Profile updated')->flash();

    return redirect()->route('profile.show');
}

On the subsequent request, call Toast::getMessages() in your layout or view; flashed messages are merged into the in-memory collection and cleared from the session automatically.

Helper Function

This package provides a global toast() helper that returns the manager. If you pass a severity and text, it will create the message immediately.

use ShufflingPixels\Toast\Severity;

// Get the manager and add messages fluently
toast()->info('Heads up');
toast()->success('Saved', 'All changes are synced', 5000);

// Create immediately via helper (one-liner)
toast(Severity::ERROR, 'Something went wrong', 'Please try again');

// Flash a specific message for the next request
toast()->warning('Requires attention')->flash();

Helper signature:

function toast(?Severity $severity = null, ?string $text = null, ?string $details = null, int $duration = 3000): \ShufflingPixels\Toast\Manager

API Reference

Facade:

use ShufflingPixels\Toast\Toast;

// Create messages (returns Message)
Toast::info(string $text, ?string $details = null, int $duration = 3000);
Toast::success(string $text, ?string $details = null, int $duration = 3000);
Toast::warning(string $text, ?string $details = null, int $duration = 3000);
Toast::error(string $text, ?string $details = null, int $duration = 3000);
Toast::new(Severity $severity, string $text, ?string $details = null, int $duration = 3000);

// Flash a single message to session
Toast::flash(\ShufflingPixels\Toast\Message $message): void;

// Retrieve all messages for the current request
Toast::getMessages(): Illuminate\Support\Collection<int, \ShufflingPixels\Toast\Message>;

// Retrieve flashed messages without merging
Toast::getFlashMessages(): Illuminate\Support\Collection<int, \ShufflingPixels\Toast\Message>;

Message object:

new Message(Severity $severity, string $text, ?string $details = null, int $duration = 3000);

// Chainable setters
$message->severity(Severity::SUCCESS)
        ->text('Saved')
        ->details('All good')
        ->duration(3000)
        ->flash();

Severities enum:

Severity::INFO
Severity::SUCCESS
Severity::WARN   // alias value: "warning"
Severity::ERROR

Blade Stubs (Optional)

The package ships minimal Blade stubs you can copy and adapt:

• src/stubs/container.blade.php – loops over Toast::getMessages() and renders each message via a component.
• src/stubs/message.blade.php – minimal message markup.

Feel free to inline the logic in your layout or create your own Blade components.

Notes

• Default duration is 3000 ms; use it to control how long a toast should stay visible on the frontend.
• Flashed messages are stored under the session key shufflingpixels.toast.flash and are cleared when read via getMessages().
• This package does not include any JavaScript; you own the presentation and dismissal logic.