Real-Time Laravel: Deep Dive into Reverb and WebSockets
Abstract With the release of Laravel 11, the ecosystem received a first-party WebSocket server: Reverb. Reverb replaces the need for third-party services like Pusher or Ably, allowing developers to host scalable, real-time applications entirely within their own infrastructure. This chapter provides a deep dive into the Reverb architecture, configuring it behind an Nginx reverse proxy, […]