Real-time (Reverb / Echo)

Live chat messages and push notifications over WebSockets. This scaffold provides the Laravel-side broadcast event, the channel authorization, and the Echo listeners; the broadcaster itself (Laravel Reverb) is installed separately.

Real-time needs a running WebSocket server (reverb:start). Unlike the other sections it isn't visible on a plain php artisan serve — it degrades gracefully: with no broadcaster configured, the event simply doesn't broadcast and the app works normally.

Scaffold

php artisan adminlte:scaffold realtime

Publishes:

Going live

1. Install broadcasting (choose Reverb) and set the REVERB_* keys in .env:

   php artisan install:broadcasting
   

2. Build the client (laravel-echo + the Reverb client are added by the step above):

   npm install && npm run build
   

3. Import the listeners from your Vite entry (after Echo is bootstrapped):

   // resources/js/app.js
   import './adminlte-realtime'
   

4. Broadcast on send — in ChatController@store, after persisting the message:

   broadcast(new \App\Events\NewChatMessage($message))->toOthers();
   

5. Run the servers:

   php artisan reverb:start
   php artisan queue:work     # if the event implements ShouldBroadcast (queued)
   

How it works

• NewChatMessage broadcasts on the private channel conversation.{id} with a small payload (id, body, user_id, created_at).
• routes/channels.php authorizes a user on that channel only if they belong to the conversation.
• adminlte-realtime.js subscribes the open conversation and dispatches a DOM adminlte:chat-message event your chat view can render; it also listens on Laravel's App.Models.User.{id} channel for broadcast notifications and dispatches adminlte:notification.

All of it no-ops when window.Echo is absent, so the bundle is safe to ship even before you finish the Reverb setup.