Get Started With Pusher: Introducing Channels

Real-time communication is a holy grail of web development, and we finally have the ability to incorporate it in our applications, thanks to the Web Sockets API. But as with most browser APIs, the Web Sockets API is rather low level, and if you have spent any amount of time with it, then you know how difficult it can be to use effectively. Today, however, we have supercomputers in our pockets that we use every single day, and users expect the same real-time experience across web, mobile, and ev