Laravel 11 Real Time Chat

My second project using Laravel, Tailwind, Reverb and Echo

I used Laravel Reverb on server side and Laravel Echo on client slide.

🌟 Key Features

• room based chat
• using IP instead of username
• uploading images

🧰 How to configure and start the app?

1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/bagbaq/real-time-chat.git
2. Run npm install
3. Run composer install
4. Run php artisan storage:link
5. Configure .env.example and rename it to .env

Start the app

1. php artisan serve
2. npm run dev (or npm run build on production environments)
3. php artisan reverb:start

📝 Todo

• Implement node.js for more performance
• Show online people count at home page and rooms
• Improve website design