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Laravel Echo Node JS Server for Socket.io with possibility to send data to Redis
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Laravel Echo Server
NodeJs server for Laravel Echo broadcasting with Socket.io.
System Requirements
The following are required to function properly.
- Laravel 5.3
- Node 5.0+
- Redis 3+
Additional information on broadcasting with Laravel can be found on the official docs: https://laravel.com/docs/master/broadcasting
Getting Started
Install npm package globally with the following command:
$ npm install -g laravel-echo-server
Initialize with CLI Tool
Run the init command in your project directory:
$ laravel-echo-server init
The cli tool will help you setup a laravel-echo-server.json file in the root directory of your project. This file will be loaded by the server during start up. You may edit this file later on to manage the configuration of your server.
API Clients
The Laravel Echo Server exposes a light http API to perform broadcasting functionality. For security purposes, access to these endpoints from http referrers must be authenticated with an API id and key. This can be generated using the cli command:
$ laravel-echo-server client:add APP_ID
If you run client:add
without an app id argument, one will be generated for you. After running this command, the client id and key will be displayed and stored in the laravel-echo-server.json file.
In this example, requests will be allowed as long as the app id and key are both provided with http requests.
Request Headers
Auhtorization: Bearer skti68i...
or
http://app.dev:6001/apps/APP_ID/channels?auth_key=skti68i...
You can remove clients with laravel-echo-server client:remove APP_ID
Run The Server
in your project root directory, run
$ laravel-echo-server start
Configurable Options
Edit the default configuration of the server by adding options to your laravel-echo-server.json file.
| Title | Default | Description |
| :------------------| :------------------- | :---------------------------|
| authEndpoint
| /broadcasting/auth
| The route that authenticates private channels |
| authHost
| http://localhost
| The host of the server that authenticates private and presence channels |
| database
| redis
| Database used to store data that should persist, like presence channel members. Options are currently redis
and sqlite
|
| databaseConfig
| {}
| Configurations for the different database drivers Example|
| host
| null
| The host of the socket.io server ex.app.dev
. null
will accept connections on any IP-address |
| port
| 6001
| The port that the socket.io server should run on |
| protocol
| http
| either http
or https
|
| sslCertPath
| ''
| The path to your server's ssl certificate |
| sslKeyPath
| ''
| The path to your server's ssl key |
| sslCertChainPath
| ''
| The path to your server's ssl certificate chain |
| sslPassphrase
| ''
| The pass phrase to use for the certificate (if applicable) |
| socketio
| {}
| Options to pass to the socket.io instance (available options) |
Running with SSL
- Your client side implementation must access the socket.io client from https.
- The server configuration must set the server host to use https.
- The server configuration should include paths to both your ssl certificate and key located on your server.
Note: This library currently only supports serving from either http or https, not both.
Subscribers
The Laravel Echo Server subscribes to incoming events with two methods: Redis & Http.
Redis
Your core application can use Redis to publish events to channels. The Laravel Echo Server will subscribe to those channels and broadcast those messages via socket.io.
Http
Using Http, you can also publish events to the Laravel Echo Server in the same fashion you would with Redis by submitting a channel
and message
to the broadcast endpoint. You need to generate an API key as described in the API Clients section and provide the correct API key.
Request Endpoint
POST http://app.dev:6001/apps/your-app-id/events?auth_key=skti68i...
Request Body
{
"channel": "channel-name",
"name": "event-name",
"data": {
"key": "value"
},
"socket_id": "h3nAdb134tbvqwrg"
}
channel - The name of the channel to broadcast an event to. For private or presence channels prepend private-
or presence-
.
channels - Instead of a single channel, you can broadcast to an array of channels with 1 request.
name - A string that represents the event key within your app.
data - Data you would like to broadcast to channel.
socket_id (optional) - The socket id of the user that initiated the event. When present, the server will only "broadcast to others".
Pusher
The HTTP subscriber is compatible with the Laravel Pusher subscriber. Just configure the host and port for your Socket.IO server and set the app id and key in config/broadcasting.php. Secret is not required.
'pusher' => [
'driver' => 'pusher',
'key' => env('PUSHER_KEY'),
'secret' => null,
'app_id' => env('PUSHER_APP_ID'),
'options' => [
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => 6001,
],
],
You can now send events using HTTP, without using Redis. This also allows you to use the Pusher API to list channels/users as described in the Pusher PHP library
HTTP API
The HTTP API exposes endpoints that allow you to gather information about your running server and channels.
Status Get total number of clients, uptime of the server, and memory usage.
GET /apps/:APP_ID/status
Channels List of all channels.
GET /apps/:APP_ID/channels
Channel Get information about a particular channel.
GET /apps/:APP_ID/channels/:CHANNEL_NAME
Channel Users List of users on a channel.
GET /apps/:APP_ID/channels/:CHANNEL_NAME/users
Database
To persist presence channel data, there is support for use of Redis or SQLite as a key/value store. The key being the channel name, and the value being the list of presence channel members.
Each database driver may be configured in the laravel-echo-server.json file under the databaseConfig
property. The options get passed through to the database provider, so developers are free to set these up as they wish.
Redis
For example, if you wanted to pass a custom configuration to Redis:
{
"databaseConfig" : {
"redis" : {
"port": "3001",
"host": "redis.app.dev"
}
}
}
Note: No scheme (http/https etc) should be used for the host address
A full list of Redis options can be found here.
SQLite
With SQLite you may be interested in changing the path where the database is stored:
{
"databaseConfig" : {
"sqlite" : {
"databasePath": "/path/to/laravel-echo-server.sqlite"
}
}
}
Presence Channels
When users join a presence channel, their presence channel authentication data is stored using Redis.
While presence channels contain a list of users, there will be instances where a user joins a presence channel multiple times. For example, this would occur when opening multiple browser tabs. In this situation "joining" and "leaving" events are only emitted to the first and last instance of the user.
Client Side Configuration
See the official Laravel documentation for more information. https://laravel.com/docs/master/broadcasting#introduction
Tips
Socket.io client library
You can include the socket.io client library from your running server. For example, if your server is running at app.dev:6001
you should be able to
add a script tag to your html like so:
<script src="//app.dev:6001/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
Note: When using the socket.io client library from your running server, remember to check that the io
global variable is defined before subscribing to events.
Better performance with µWebSockets
For extra performance, you can use the faster uws
engine instead of ws
, by setting the wsEngine
option for Socket.IO in laravel-echo-server.json
:
"socketio": {
"wsEngine": "uws"
}
See https://github.com/uWebSockets/uWebSockets for more information.