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It's going to be my first time using Broadcasting with Laravel and I'm struggling to choose a suitable driver for me. Currently the best options seem to be
Like I mentioned on the other thread - Pusher is an easy choice to make since their free tier offers a lot of capacity and can be seamlessly replaced by Laravel Websockets if/when you scale to that level (and are prepared to take on management of that process).
@lukegalea16 you can compare....
https://www.libhunt.com/compare-laravel-websockets-vs-soketi
As pointed out by others, a managed solution with free tier will be easy to get started with.
You should check out PieSocket.
PieSocket offers more bandwidth than Pusher's free tier.
@sudoanand I'm also sitting with a chat app using laravel 10 backend api and vue3 frontend. I wanted to try Reverb but it seem very hard to setup because no one have really used it yet. I dont wanna pay for Firebase because. CBA. Already paying for Google vision AI for a sandbox project.
Would you say PieSocket would work for my setup?
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