Example Laravel Chat

This chat example is using Broadcasting events which was introduced in Laravel 5.1. This feature is intended to integrate with Pub-Sub functionality such as Pusher / Redis and Socket.io through Laravel Event.

Broadcasting Events in Laravel 5.1 - laracasts

In real world applications, we need not only broadcasting messages/notifications but also private messages/notifications. This example app is my feasibility study to prove Laravel and Socket.io can be well integrated.

• Share user's session between Laravel and Socket.io/Node.js
• Push message to specified user by Laravel Event through Redis and Socket.io

Useful Links

• Easy Socket.IO + BroadCasting in Laravel - LukePOLO

Prerequisites

This example application has been tested in the environment below.

• Laravel 5.2
• PHP7
• Node.js v4 or above
• MySQL
• Redis

Preparation

Install dependencies.

$ composer install
$ npm install

Migrate.

$ php artisan migrate

Review envrionment parameters in .env, you may need to change SOCKTIO_ENDPOINT.

Build js.

$ gulp

Run the example application

• Ensure mysql is running
• Ensure redis is running
• Ensure nginx/php aritisan serve is running

Run socket.io server

$ node socket-server.js

1. Access to http://<YOUR_ENDPOINT>/, and create two users and logged in with different browsers.
2. Access to http://<YOUR_ENDPOINT>/home, you can chat using two browsers.

TODO

• Test