Setup broadcaster with socket.io

[BEY9S]

Hi,
I followed the basic configuration of WebSocket given within the docs (driver: Redis, socket.io), but each times i run gulp, I got the error below :

{ [Error: ./~/laravel-echo/dist/echo.js
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'pusher-js' in '/my/projet/node_modules/laravel-echo/dist'

Hope someone can help me to figure out this problem, knwoing that i didn't do any setup with pusher-js.

[happyDemon]

pusher is a hard dependency for some reason. doing a simple npm install pusher should do the trick

[mealinks]

I don't use pusher dependency, because i set up my Echo with socket. But thanks I figured out by creating a webpack.config.js where i skipped pusher-js.

[happyDemon]

ah that was the other option indeed 👍

[BEY9S]

It does @happyDemon , i did add also pusher-js and webpack passed.

can you tell me if i need to run laravel-echo-server each times i'd like to communicate my socket, also do i need socketIO configuration stuff in the client.

[happyDemon]

This should do it:
new Echo({ broadcaster: 'socket.io', host: 'URL', })

You do have to keep the node server running to listen to/send events.
in a live environment you could do that with Supervisor or PM2

[martingg88]

@mealinks can i have an example for how you skip the pusher-js? many thanks

[BEY9S]

Hey @martingg88

here is a relative issue #52

[driesvints]

Closing this issue because it's already solved, old or not relevant anymore. Feel free to reply if you're still experiencing this issue.

[WhyIExist]

can someone help, I have this same issue