Laravel 9 throw custom error view if DB connection fails?

Question

what i am trying to do is if the connection to the database fails, instead of getting No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it, i want to throw a custom view that displays a simple h1 with the text that the connection fails. How can i do that?

Answer 1

The answer was given at the top, but i made it work with some modifications.

use Throwable;
use PDOException;

public function render($request, Throwable $exception)
{
    if ($exception instanceof PDOException) {
        return response()->view('errors.database', [], 500);
    }

    return parent::render($request, $exception);
}