Self-Host Your Own Websockets with Laravel - It’s This Easy and Fast

Have you ever wanted to use Websockets without using an external service like Pusher? In this video I will show you how you finally can leverage the power of websockets in Laravel without any external services. We will use Laravel Echo to work with the sockets on the frontend and Laravel events to trigger events on the server side. The method we will use to operate our Websockets today is a package called laravel-websockets. This package actually imports an instance of Ratchet, a low-level web sockets ser