🚀 Real-time Web Applications with Laravel and Vue.js: Building with Pusher and WebSockets 🚀
Building a real-time web application can be challenging, but Laravel and Vue.js make it easy and fun. In this post, we'll explore how to build a real-time web application using Laravel and Vue.js, with the help of Pusher and WebSockets.
🔨 Setting Up
First, let's create a new Laravel project:
laravel new real-time-app
Next, let's install the required packages using Composer:
composer require pusher/pusher-php-server pusher/pusher-http-laravel beyondcode/laravel-websockets
Now, let's configure the pusher, broadcasting, and queue settings in our .env file:
BROADCAST_DRIVER=pusher
QUEUE_CONNECTION=pusher
PUSHER_APP_ID=app_id
PUSHER_APP_KEY=app_key
PUSHER_APP_SECRET=app_secret
PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER=cluster
WEBSOCKETS_APP_NAME=real-time-app
📡 Broadcasting Events
To broadcast events, we need to create an event class in Laravel. Let's create a new OrderShipped event in app/Events/OrderShipped.php:
namespace App\Events;
use App\Models\Order;
use Illuminate\Broadcasting\Channel;
use Illuminate\Broadcasting\InteractsWithSockets;
use Illuminate\Broadcasting\PrivateChannel;
use Illuminate\Broadcasting\PresenceChannel;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Events\Dispatchable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
class OrderShipped
{
use Dispatchable, InteractsWithSockets, SerializesModels;
public $order;
public function __construct(Order $order)
{
$this->order = $order;
}
public function broadcastOn()
{
return new Channel('orders');
}
}
We can broadcast this event by calling:
broadcast(new OrderShipped($order));
🚀 Conclusion
In this post, we learned how to build a real-time web application using Laravel and Vue.js with the help of Pusher and WebSockets. We explored how to set up the project, broadcast events, and receive them in real-time using Vue.js. Pusher and WebSockets make building real-time web applications a breeze. If you'd like to learn more about Laravel, Pusher, and WebSockets, check out the links below:
