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Published inSep 2016
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Terry Matula
Terry Matula
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Terry Matula

Terry Matula is a web developer and Laravel advocate based in Austin, TX. He's been a passionate computer enthusiast since he first played Oregon Trail on an Apple//e. He started programming in BASIC at a young age, making simple Scott Adams-like games on a Commodore Vic-20. Since then, he's worked as a developer using Flash/ActionScript, ASP.NET, PHP, and numerous PHP frameworks, with Laravel being his favorite by far. He blogs web development tips and tricks at his website http://terrymatula.com
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Alfred Nutile
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Alfred Nutile is an Enterprise Architect and Laravel lead based in Western Massachusetts. He's been working in the industry since the mid 90's. He started in PHP and MySQL back around that time and has worked with Ruby on Rails, Drupal, and Angular along the way. He introduced Laravel into an enterprise web stack, where he is currently contracted at, as Laravel proved itself as an amazing framework to build API's and Angular heavy application. You can read more about him and checkout his blog at http://www.alfrednutile.info/ or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/alnutile Make sure to checkout the discount LaraCasts is offering those who buy the book! Get a coupon for 50% on your first bill. Make it a yearly subscription and save $43! Coupon Code: LaracastsLovesPackt https://laracasts.com/signup?plan=yearly&coupon=LaracastsLovesPackt.
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Using pusher for live notifications


Pusher is a great service and is a super simple way to start sending messages to the UI from the backend of your application. In this example, I will notify persons in the UI that they have a Favorite series that came out. I will cover setting up a pusher account, setting up Laravel to talk to pusher, and finally setting up Angular to show this message.

Getting ready

I have been building up a site throughout this book and will now plug this into the already built command to trigger the event that I will use to broadcast to pusher and Angular. Make sure you have Laravel freshly installed if you have not made it down to this part of the book.

How to do it…

  1. Get pusher info, go to https://pusher.com, and sign up.

  2. Then, create a new app, I will call it recipes; you will get a page like this:

    Pusher creating a new app

  3. Plug this info into Laravel in the config/broadcasting.php file where we see all of our env settings just waiting for the settings that we see in A in...

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Terry Matula

Terry Matula is a web developer and Laravel advocate based in Austin, TX. He's been a passionate computer enthusiast since he first played Oregon Trail on an Apple//e. He started programming in BASIC at a young age, making simple Scott Adams-like games on a Commodore Vic-20. Since then, he's worked as a developer using Flash/ActionScript, ASP.NET, PHP, and numerous PHP frameworks, with Laravel being his favorite by far. He blogs web development tips and tricks at his website http://terrymatula.com
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Alfred Nutile

Alfred Nutile is an Enterprise Architect and Laravel lead based in Western Massachusetts. He's been working in the industry since the mid 90's. He started in PHP and MySQL back around that time and has worked with Ruby on Rails, Drupal, and Angular along the way. He introduced Laravel into an enterprise web stack, where he is currently contracted at, as Laravel proved itself as an amazing framework to build API's and Angular heavy application. You can read more about him and checkout his blog at http://www.alfrednutile.info/ or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/alnutile Make sure to checkout the discount LaraCasts is offering those who buy the book! Get a coupon for 50% on your first bill. Make it a yearly subscription and save $43! Coupon Code: LaracastsLovesPackt https://laracasts.com/signup?plan=yearly&coupon=LaracastsLovesPackt.
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