realtime chat app without using pusher

Nowadays Realtime something required in your application. so i decided to create a small chat application using laravel vuejs and laravel-echo-server .

installing stuffs

To begin, we have to install the laravel-echo-server package globally, you can do so by executing this in your terminal.

$ npm install -g laravel-echo-server

install php packages

$ composer install

install javascript packages

$ npm install

create database then update .env file don't forget to change these params (or rename .env.example -> .env )

BROADCAST_DRIVER=redis
QUEUE_DRIVER=redis

i think we are done here . let's start laravel-echo-serve

$ laravel-echo-server start

start server

$ php artisan serve

i hope you like it