Clean Up Your Laravel Code with Events & Listeners 🚀

Is your code filled with repetitive tasks that clutter your controller or service logic?

Laravel offers a powerful solution: Events & Listeners – the clean, scalable way to organize logic in a professional and maintainable structure.

📌 Real-Life Scenario

Imagine this:

🔹 A user registers on your website.
🔸 What needs to happen next?

• Send them a welcome email

• Log the registration in the activity log

• Notify the site admin

You could write all of this in the registration function…
But that leads to messy, tightly coupled code that’s hard to maintain.

✅ The Better Way: Use Events & Listeners

Laravel Events help you separate what happened from what should happen next.

🔧 What is an Event?

An Event represents something that occurred in your application.
Example: UserRegistered

🔧 What is a Listener?

A Listener defines the actions that should take place when an event is fired. 
Example: SendWelcomeEmail

🛠️ Practical Example

Let’s break it down step by step:

Step 1: Create the Event

php artisan make:event UserRegistered

This event might contain user data like their name or email address.

Step 2: Create the Listener

php artisan make:listener SendWelcomeEmail --event=UserRegistered

This listener will handle sending the welcome email when the event is triggered.

Step 3: Dispatch the Event

In your registration logic, fire the event like so:

event(new UserRegistered($user));

Now, the listener will automatically handle sending the email.