Live Chat App

Introduction

Live chat app is built off the tutorial BUILD A CHAT APP WITH LARAVEL by Chimezie Enyinnaya.

Quick Start

To load in your php dependencies

$ cd live-chat
$ composer install

Once this is complete. Copy your .env.example file to .env and update the following accordingly

DB_CONNECTION=XXXXX
DB_HOST=XXXXX
DB_PORT=XXXXXX
DB_DATABASE=XXXXXXX
DB_USERNAME=XXXXXXXX
DB_PASSWORD=XXXXXXX

Don't forget to replace the Xs with you actual value then proceed to generate a key for your laravel project

$ php artisan key:generate

This chat app makes use of pusher, so you will need to create an account on pusher. Create a new app once you login and update your .env file with your app info

PUSHER_APP_ID=XXXXXX
PUSHER_APP_KEY=XXXXXXX
PUSHER_APP_SECRET=XXXXXXX
PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER=XXXX

Don't forget to replace the Xs with the actual data. When all this has been done, you then proceed to running your migration command

$ php artisan migrate

Once the migration is successful, we need to load in our node_modules. To do this, we run the code below

$ npm install

Once the node modules have been installed then we can proceed to compiling our chat app using Laravel Mix

$ npm run build

Now we can start our chat app by

$ php artisan serve