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Hello Experts,
I have built a marketplace ecommerce application on Laravel & inertiajs ( with vuejs ) stack and now need to add another module i.e. auction.
Could I have few suggestions with pros & cons, for what other stack should I use to build the real-time auction module?
I have read about Laravel Echo, socket.io & pusherjs but unsure which of them should be the right fit as most of the tutorials are the real-time chat application.
Cheers, Lalitesh
@lalitesh You will probably want to use web sockets to communicate to other interested parties when a bid is placed on an item they are watching or have previously bid on.
To make this easier, Laravel has the Echo package that then integrates with a variety of web socket providers such as Pusher and socket.io.
@martinbean Thank you!
Testing Laravel Echo with pusher now :)
Hey @lalitesh how did you go with the auction module. I'm considering using Laravel for an Auction site as well.
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