Get Started With Pusher: Build a Chat App With Channels, PHP, and Vue.js

Channels from Pusher is a platform that allows you to give your apps seamless real-time data. In this post, I'll show you how to write the functional components of a very simple chat app. It's a stripped-down example, but you'll see how Channels can simplify the implementation of real-time communication in a web app. Setting Up the ServerOur server application is a single PHP file called messages.php which will handle the POST requests coming from the browser. Our message handler will send