Has anyone worked with laravel, socket.io and flutter ?

i am currently learning how to build flutter app and was planning to implement the laravel and mysql as backend.

its not that hard unless the broadcast comes in. i haven't ever used broadcast in laravel projects as of yet.

while after searching i found that pusher is free for 100 connections and after that it's paid service. i tried to search a package for the flutter side but no relaible package is yet available.

while searching a pusher package for flutter, i stumble upon this package: https://github.com/kakajansh/echo

here it supports socket.io and pusher but pusher is yet under work. so socket.io was something i started looking into and found, it's a library and this package is a port of laravel echo which is free.

has anyone ever used this combination in a project ? any tutorial i can refer to make a flutter app with laravel , mysql and socket.io as to broadcast events or data.

by the way i was building a simple chatting app as of now while learning. it as firebase version in teaching but in future, laravel is something i am looking to use as a backend so need imput on the same for auth, data storage and notifications or real time app.

thank you for going through my request. have a nice day / afternoon / evening / night ahead :)