Laravel Realtime Map

This application implements a Pusher server that broadcasts location updates when it receives a web request. The code for the frontend map that responds to the location update can be found here. There is also an tutorial explaining how this work in detail and can be found here.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

You would need to have PHP installed on your local machine to have this project running. See here for instruction on how to install PHP on your particular operating system.

Setup Instructions

1. Clone this repository and cd into it.
2. Configure your environment variables for Pusher and Laravel by copying the .env.example to .env
3. Install composer dependencies
4. Run the Server using php artisan serve

Testing the Application

See here for how to test this application.

Built With

• Laravel - PHP Framework for Web Artisans
• Pusher - APIs to enable devs building realtime features