About project

This is a real-time web chat app with Socket.io, Laravel-echo & Redis.

• Laravel
• PHP
• Js
• Socket.io
• Laravel-echo
• Laravel-echo-server
• Redis
• Redis-server

Getting Started

Clone the project repository by running the command below if you use SSH

git clone git@github.com:Mohsen-mhm/chat-app.git

If you use https, use this instead

git clone https://github.com/Mohsen-mhm/chat-app.git

After cloning, run:

composer install

and:

npm install

Duplicate .env.example and rename it .env

Then run:

php artisan key:generate

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Prerequisites

install Redis

• For Linux
• For Mac
• For Windows - Use This repo to download and install Redis on Windows

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Database Migrations

Be sure to fill in your database details in your .env file before running the migrations:

php artisan migrate

Run Redis server in cmd :

redis-server

Run Laravel echo server in cmd :

laravel-echo-server start

And finally, start the application:

php artisan serve

visit http://localhost:8000 to see the application in action.