Real-Time Laravel Showdown: Laravel Reverb vs. Pusher
summary
A practical comparison of Laravel Reverb (an open-source, self-hostable real-time server) and Pusher (a hosted SaaS with free tiers up to 50 users and 200,000 messages/day). The demo builds a small e‑commerce using Laravel Echo to emit order events and state changes, shows switching drivers requires restarting Vite and artisan, and concludes both work but Reverb needs more infrastructure and configuration while Pusher offers a ready-made debug UI and simpler setup.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:08Real-time concept
- 5:47WebSockets vs polling
- 8:40Event-driven vs polling
- 17:42Pusher vs Reverb demo
- 29:20Reverb vs Pusher criteria
- 31:07Q&A
