php - Real-time chatting and notifications in laravel 5

Question

I need to implement real-time chatting and real-time notifications in my application. What is the best way to do it using laravel-5? Suggest me some good packages or your expert views on them.

Answer 1

For real time chat you need to use asynchronous websockets.

You can try with this library https://github.com/ratchetphp/Ratchet

laravel 5.2 chat

and this project github.com/assertchris/tutorial-laravel-4-real-time-chat

Good library github.com/BrainBoxLabs/brain-socket

also amazing tutorial with socket IO www.codetutorial.io/laravel-5-and-socket-io-tutorial/

Video example with AJAX and laravel 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLDjgbbBvOg