Build A Realtime Chat App With Laravel 11, Vue 3 And Pinia

Learn how to build a realtime chat app with Laravel with Reverb, Vue and Inertia, pulling in Pinia for state management

What you'll learn

Learn how to Integrate Laravel with Reverb to build Real-Time Applications

Learn how to display user typing events using Whisper and implement Client-to-Client communication

Learn how to use presence channels to show online users for each room

Learn how to use the Intersection Observer API to automatically load previous chat messages

Learn State management with Pinia

Learn how to use flexbox tricks to keep messages scrolled into view as they roll in

Learn how to listen for Broadcasted events from the backend and react to them accordingly

Learn how to listen for users leaving or joining events and add/remove them from the online user list

Requirements

Beginner level knowledge of PHP/Laravel and VueJS is Required

Description

Using the power of Laravel Reverb, let’s build a real-time multi-room chat application with Laravel 11 and VueJS with InertiaJS,  pulling in Pinia for state management.We’ll cover:Using the Intersection Observer API to load previous chat messages automatically when the user scrolls to the top of the chat interfaceLearn how to Use presence channels to show online users for each roomLearn how to implement Client-to-client communication using Laravel Echo to show who’s typing and display the typing indicators accordinglyLearn how to use Flexbox tricks to keep messages scrolled into view as they roll inLearn database seeding techniques in LaravelLearn how to use API Resources in LaravelLearn how to display better-formatted dates and timesLearn how to listen for Broadcasted events from the backend and react to them accordinglyWe'll also learn how to listen for users leaving or joining events and add/remove them from the online user listAll of this state will be managed on the client side, using PiniaBy the end of this course, you will have built a feature-rich, real-time chat application that showcases your understanding of front-end and back-end technologies, perfect for any aspiring developer looking to enhance their skills in dynamic web application development.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Installing Laravel

Lecture 2 Scaffolding Chat Rooms

Lecture 3 Let's work on the Chat UI

Lecture 4 Building the Chat TextArea

Lecture 5 Seeding Fake Messages in Order

Lecture 6 Creating a Pinia Store

Lecture 7 Creating the Messages Endpoint

Laravel Developers who want to Build Realtime Applications using InertiaJS, Vue 3 and Reverb