Get Real With Laravel Reverb

Let's take a look at the technologies we'll be using and the app we'll be working with during this course.

In this lesson, we'll take a look at how to install and configure Reverb and Laravel's event broadcasting in your application.

We want our users to receive messages without having to refresh the page. In this lesson we'll take a look at how we can use Laravel's event broadcasting to achieve this.

Now our users can send and receive messages in real-time, let's take a minute to lock things down and ensure only those users with the relevant access are able to do so.

We'll extend the capabilities of our private channel by utilizing Client Whispers to implement a typing indicator allowing us to see when other members of the channel are typing.

One useful feature of a real-time chat application is presence indication - knowing whether or not other users are online. In this lesson, we'll take a look at how we can implement this feature using Laravel Reverb.

During the creation of this course, the Laravel team made a new addition to the framework, which affords us the opportunity for a nice refactor.

Laravel allows us to hook into Eloquent and automatically broadcast events during the lifecycle of a given model. In this lesson, we'll work on allowing users to create new channels, whilst using model broadcasting to notify other users, in real-time, when a new channel is available.

Now that our application is complete, we probably want to get a better understanding of how our real-time elements are performing. Using Reverb's direct integration with Laravel Pulse, we can easily track the number of subscriptions and messages being sent across our Reverb server. Join me in this lesson to learn how to get this set up.

With our application now ready for the prime time, let's take a look at how we can deploy it to production and make it accessible to our users.