What we've learned?

In this chapter and over the set of exercises we've undertaken we've covered:

• Real-time fundamentals: what are channels, events and event data
• How you trigger events and channels from your server-side
• How you subscribe to channels, bind to events and handle event data on the client
• How to add real-time notifications to a Laravel app

What next?

Notifications demonstrates the easiest use case for real-time technology and Pusher. The next most common use case - which is really just an extension of notifications - is activity streams. So, let's look at adding activity stream functionality to the Laravel app.