Hi,

I want to check if a user has any new messages each time they load the page. Up until now, I have been doing this inside of my views but it's getting fairly hard to maintain since I have a fair number of views now.

I assume this is the kind of thing middleware is good for, a check that will happen every single page load. What I need it to do is so:

1. Check if the user is logged in
2. If they are, check if they have any messages
3. Store the result so I can reference the information in my templates

Has anyone ever had to write any middleware like this? I've never used middleware before so any help would be greatly appreciated.