Today I am going to show you how easy it is to create a todo app with SMS alerts in Laravel. Everything needed in including in the Laravel installation. I am using Laravel Homestead as my development machine image.

What Will We Be Building?

A canonical example to learn building web apps is creating a todo list app. I wanted to take the concept a step further. Wouldn’t it be nice to also receive a text message with the todo item? We will build exactly that. Building an SMS server is actually quite easy. It is as simple as sending an email to [email protected] a more comprehensive tutorial can be found here. This example will also serve as an excellent use case for Laravel’s Event system. Let’s get started!