Laravel Soketi Chat App

A demo application to learn soketi with laravel broadcast.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/rahulkhimsuriya/laravel-soketi-chat-app.git

cd laravel-soketi-chat-app

Install PHP dependencies:

composer install

Install node dependencies and build assets:

npm install && npm run build

Setup configuration:

cp .env.example .env

Generate application key:

php artisan key:generate

Create an SQLite database. You can also use another database (MySQL, Postgres), simply update your configuration accordingly. Read more

touch database/database.sqlite

Change database connection

DB_CONNECTION=sqlite

Run database migrations and seed database:

php artisan migrate --seed

Change broadcast driver in your .env file :

BROADCAST_DRIVER=pusher

Setup soketi configuration in you .env file:

Note: if you're using pusher insted of soketi please change credentials accordingly.

PUSHER_APP_ID=app-id
PUSHER_APP_KEY=app-key
PUSHER_APP_SECRET=app-secret
PUSHER_HOST=127.0.0.1
PUSHER_PORT=6001
PUSHER_SCHEME=http
PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER=mt1

Run soketi server (if you already have soketi server running then please skip this step)

npm run soketi

Login credentials:

Email: john@example.com
Password: password

Run the dev server (click me):

php artisan serve

Thank you.