> In today’s article, I am going to create a chatroom using Laravel 5.4, Pusher and VueJs. Since these tools are popular and almost every developer has heard of them, I will skip the theoretical introductions and discussions and go straight to the fun part.
I, uh, I don't think almost every developer has heard of them. Even making the names links would help.
Pusher is the only odd one; You'd probably only hear about it if you've looked into real-time communication technologies.
I spend all day sitting on an IRC style 'chatroom' with a bunch of friends, that was written about decade ago.
It uses a combination of javascript ('ajax') on the client side, and crappy ASP on the backend (because the only server at the time that was available was a Windows server).
The comms is very simple asynchronous polling and formatting/parsing javascript. In fact the only updates over time have really been all client side to take advantage of new browser features. It works through firewalls and proxies (which websockets still do not) - basically anywhere you can see a modern webpage.
My rambling point is... you don't need all these frameworks to push a message to a server, and fetch back a list of new ones. In fact for low volume handful-of-users chat traffic you don't even need a database (gasp!).
I know we should all avoid re-inventing the wheel where possible, but are you (not 'you' the OP, but 'you' the fictional reader) really a web developer, if all you are doing is gluing ever changing frameworks together ??
It's a "here's how you can use Laravel and Vue" article.
I don't think there was ever a time that people didn't have alternatives to windows server and ASP.
Maybe there was a time that ASP was more popular than the alternatives, but I personally haven't observed such thing.
