Laravel Broadcasting: run Reverb yourself, or use a hosted service?
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Laravel Broadcasting gives you two good ways to push events to browsers. You can run Laravel Reverb, the WebSocket server the Laravel team released with Laravel 11, or you can point the pusher driver at a hosted service such as Pusher or Hibira. Both speak the Pusher protocol, and both work with Laravel Echo and pusher-js. Your events, channels and routes/channels.php don't change. So the question isn't which one your code supports. It's who runs the WebSocket server. What running Rev