laravel-websockets VS socialite

I'm working on a real-time chat application but facing some issues while working with broadcasting events using the laravel-websockets package. Things were working fine yesterday and I was receiving messages from private and public channels but I don't know why I'm not receiving messages anymore.

Yes I did and even found that documentation but I just wanted to confirm that I'm on the right track. Do you suggest using Laravel-Websockets or Pusher as a broadcaster? I am inclined to use Laravel-Websockets just because it's free (so I wouldn't have recurrent costs), however I don't want to end up with limitations or issues later on.

Laravel Echo is free and part of Laravel. You need to use it with a websockets server or a service like Pusher or Ably, and that is what you pay for. But if you make your own websockets server with Laravel Websockets, as u/phoogkamer suggested, you can host your own websockets server on your infrastructure.

Laravel Websockets

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.

https://github.com/beyondcode/laravel-websockets is an OSS Pusher implementation. /u/serenityphp

Going deeper than just blade files, Laravel is a full MVC framework and so includes things like Models and Controllers out of the box that can be used to organize your server-rendered code. Authentication is also baked in by default, and with first-party packages like Breeze, Sanctum, or Socialite, you can include user registration, login, API-based authentication, social sign-ups, and role-based permissions with near zero configuration.

Have you considered https://github.com/laravel/socialite? Check https://socialiteproviders.com to see if the provider is supported already. If not, it's probably easier to write a custom provider than it is to write everything from scratch without Socialite.

Laravel Socialite enables you to handle OAuth authentication more seamlessly. This tool allows users to login via social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Google, Bitbucket, etc. This is one of the popular Laravel features that is commonly used in most of the Laravel development.

Listado de drivers open source para Laravel Socialite: https://github.com/laravel/socialite

https://github.com/laravel/socialite/blob/5.x/src/Two/FacebookProvider.php#L125