Mar 26, 2025
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Social media app chat related features - laravel websockets/ reverb/ socket.io/ Soketi etc.
Hello. Please forgive if this isn't the right place for my question, but since I'm using Laravel for my app I'd like to write it here. Kindly put this post on the right section if General section isn't the right place.
I'm building a social mobile app with Flutter for frontend and Laravel for backend API. Everything is fine, and now I'm getting onto the chat features.
I've read on this topic several times on internet and on AI chats, but I want to ask here for experienced people.
The features I want to have is:
- Real-time chats
- "Someone is typing" indicators
- Notifications from other chatrooms (let's say someone sent me a message in any chatroom and I may be browsing other sections of the app (so I'm not connected to a chatroom space or connected to related websockets), but I want to see notification of the message.
I'm looking at several packages like Laravel Reverb, Laravel Websockets, Socket.IO, Soketi etc.
Please guide me with choosing the right thing 🙏🏻.
Regards.
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