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socieboy/chat
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Laravel Chat

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Deprecated

Laravel Chat
============

[](#laravel-chat)

Laravel Chat is a package to make on your own app a chat with multi users and private conversations.

This package use redis and socket.io to better performance.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Required
--------

[](#required)

Install redis on your server.

```
nmp install socket.io
nmp install ioredis

```

Download and Installation
-------------------------

[](#download-and-installation)

Download laravel chat package to your project

```
composer require "socieboy/chat" "dev-master"

```

Then execute the command

```
Composer update

```

Place the service provider on your app.php config file.

```
Socieboy\Chat\ChatServiceProvider::class,

```

Migrations
----------

[](#migrations)

Now execute the command.

```
php artisan chat:tables

```

Then run

```
php artisan migrate

```

Update laravel auth
-------------------

[](#update-laravel-auth)

Update the AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers trait of the laravel auth controller. This trait is updated to fire events when a new user has been logged in and out.

```
Socieboy\Chat\Traits\AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers

```

Styles and Scripts
------------------

[](#styles-and-scripts)

Publish the scripts and styles with the command

```
php artisan vendor:publish

```

Set up on your master view page the fallow code. On the meta tags area between the &lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt; tags.

```

```

Also you have to add the style scripts.

```

```

Same thing with the JS files required, make sure to place them in end before to close the &lt;body&gt;&lt;\\body&gt; tag.

```

```

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

Run redis on your server

```
redis-server

```

Then on your project folder execute this code

```
node socket.js

```

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance19

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7442695?v=4)[Frank Sepulveda](/maintainers/socieboy)[@socieboy](https://github.com/socieboy)

---

Top Contributors

[![socieboy](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7442695?v=4)](https://github.com/socieboy "socieboy (27 commits)")

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