Laravel 5.1 Event Broadcasting Example

In many modern web applications, web sockets are used to implement real-time, live-updating user interfaces. When some data is updated on the server, a message is typically sent over a websocket connection to be handled by the client.

To assist you in building these types of applications, Laravel makes it easy to "broadcast" your events over a websocket connection. Broadcasting your Laravel events allows you to share the same event names between your server-side code and your client-side JavaScript framework.

By default laravel supports three drivers, Pusher, Redis and a Log driver for debugging. In this example we use redis and nodejs client using socket.io to implement event broadcasting.

Pre-requisite

• Laravel 5.1
• NodeJS installed
• Redis installed

Used Packages

PHP

• predis/predis: for redis client

NodeJS

• express: expressjs framework for routing
• socket.io: socket.io library for web socket
• ioredis: ioredis library as redis client

Installation

At first clone the repository using following command-

git clone https://github.com/milon521/laravel-event-broadcasting-example.git

Then install php dependency

composer install

Then install nodejs dependency with

npm install

Then run redis server using the following command-

redis-server --port 3001

Then start nodejs server using-

node server.js

At last start laravel server

php artisan serve

Then visit http://localhost:8000 to view app in browser.

Contact

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