echo VS laravel-echo-server

Laravel Echo (https://github.com/laravel/echo) is framework-agnostic; you could make it work with jQuery or anything else. Vue's not required.

Listen for events with Laravel Echo,

I use Laravel Echo https://github.com/laravel/echo

Laravel has several ways to accomplish this actually. The main being the Laravel Echo server https://github.com/laravel/echo

I'm using beyondcode/laravel-websockets with laravel/echo on localhost. Public channels work fine, I also tested private channels by giving productId manually and it works.

Welcome to the dark side! If you're looking for even more reasons to love Laravel, check out Spatie's packages or some of Laravel's official ones like Cashier, Echo, or Sanctum.

Which of these do you use for your realtime Laravel applications? Soketi seems good but documentation doesn't seem that good. Laravel Websockets is mentioned in the official Laravel docs as a Pusher alternative,and Laravel Echo Server looks good but hasn't been updated for a year.

Events are broadcast using Laravel Echo Server, Laravel Websockets, or Soketi. Say on a channel time.

Yeah, we've used https://github.com/tlaverdure/laravel-echo-server in production for years. But our version is modified, restarts in sync with the clients on a schedule, and needs...TLC.

As for the connection error, that is shown because no websocket server is setup and running for your app (also adding to my docs). By default, my messenger-ui NotifyManager.js uses laravel echo and the socketio library, along with laravel-echo-server for the socketio instance.

not websockets, but this looks like a great alternative option https://github.com/tlaverdure/laravel-echo-server