Tweaking Eloquent relations – how to get latest related model?
Jarek Tkaczyk demonstrates how you can use a helper relation to eager load specific models.
Have you ever needed to show only single related model from the hasMany relationship on a set of parents?Being it latest, highest or just random, it’s not very clever to load whole collection using eager loading, just like running query per every parent.
Of course you can do that better, and now let me show you how.
https://softonsofa.com/tweaking-eloquent-relations-how-to-get-latest-related-model/