Creating Real-time Chat Applications with Laravel, MongoDB, and WebSockets
Laravel has become one of the most popular web frameworks in recent years, thanks to its simplicity, flexibility, and robust features. It supports various databases and comes with a wide range of packages that make development faster and more efficient. One of the most useful features of Laravel is its support for MongoDB, a NoSQL database that provides high scalability and performance. And when it comes to real-time communication between users, WebSockets is the go-to technology. Let’s see how we can use these technologies together to create a real-time chat application. Setting up the Project Before we begin, let’s make sure we have the necessary components installed. We need to install PHP, Composer, Laravel, MongoDB, Node.js, and Socket.IO. Install Laravel by running the following command: composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel chatapp Install MongoDB by following the official MongoDB documentation: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/installation/ Install Node.js ...