Laravel + soketi = <3

A small Laravel Chat app demo for soketi. 📡

Installing the project

The server requires:

• Composer
• Node.js + NPM (for soketi)
• PHP 8.0+

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

cd laravel-chat-app

Installing the chat room app

Run the following chain commands to install the project:

composer install --ignore-platform-reqs && \
cp .env.example .env && \
touch database/database.sqlite && \
php artisan key:generate && \
php artisan migrate:fresh --seed && \
php artisan storage:link

Open your .env file and configure the PUSHER_* credentials (which can be the same as the default ones below):

PUSHER_APP_KEY=app-key
PUSHER_APP_ID=app-id
PUSHER_APP_SECRET=app-secret
PUSHER_HOST=127.0.0.1
PUSHER_PORT=6001

MIX_PUSHER_APP_KEY="${PUSHER_APP_KEY}"
MIX_PUSHER_HOST="${PUSHER_HOST}"
MIX_PUSHER_PORT="${PUSHER_PORT}"

Build the frontend assets:

npm install && npm run dev

Run the internal server to make the HTTP server accessible on http://127.0.0.1:8000:

php artisan serve

Installing soketi

You can find multiple installation methods for soketi, but for this project we assume you already have NPM installed:

npm install -g @soketi/soketi@latest

To launch the server, open a new terminal window and let it run in the background:

soketi start

Authentication

The seeders created three accounts. All accounts can be accessed with the password password:

• test@test.com
• test2@test.com
• test3@test.com

Linting the code

You can lint the code for Vue:

npm run lint

For PHP, use the CSFixer command:

vendor/bin/php-cs-fixer fix