# Laravel Livewire: Private notifications with Echo (pusher.js)

In the docs for Livewire there's an [example](https://laravel-livewire.com/docs/2.x/laravel-echo) for handling events via Echo but took me a bit to figure out how to use just the basic notification on a User model.

Turns out it is really dang simple (thanks Caleb!).

In your component that will be the listener for an event you can use:

```
// Special Syntax: ['echo:{channel},{event}' => '{method}']
protected $listeners = ['echo:orders,OrderShipped' => 'notifyNewOrder'];
```

Now to listen for something like `$user->notify(new OrderReady());`

First, add to your User.php model:

```
    public function receivesBroadcastNotificationsOn(): string
    {
        return 'users.'.$this->id;
    }
```

A paired down version of our component:

```
<?php

namespace App\Http\Livewire;

use Livewire\Component;

class Notification extends Component
{
    public function getListeners(): array
    {
        $authId = auth()->id();
        return [
            "echo-private:users.{$authId},.Illuminate\\Notifications\\Events\\BroadcastNotificationCreated" => 'sendNotify',
        ];
    }

    public function sendNotify(mixed $notify): void
    {
        // Do things!
    }
}
```

We've added this to the bottom of our layout blade. You can include the normal `render()` to do popups or whatever is needed.

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P.S. 

If you start getting 403 errors in the console about `/broadcast/auth` make sure to read the  [docs](https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/broadcasting#authorizing-channels).