This is a workshop on how to use Pusher to add awesome real-time features to your Laravel apps. It's purpose isn't to teach you how to use Laravel, but we'll do our best to provide all the steps required to go through the workshop.
So, let's create a Laravel app.
Navigate to a directory in which you want your Laravel application to be created. We're going to create an application called real-time-app.
If you have the laravel executable on your PATH you can use:
› laravel new real-time-app
Otherwise, you can use composer:
› composer create-project laravel/laravel real-time-app --prefer-dist
Navigate into the newly created real-time-app directory and open the contents in your favourite editor.
To make sure everything is working, run the newly created application. From the real-time-app directory in the terminal or console window run the following:
› php artisan serve
Yipee! The app is created and running. Next, let's store the Pusher application credentials we've got in environment variables.