Socket.io Web Sockets with Laravel 5.1 & Redis

client.js

// Remember to include the socket.io.js script - https://cdn.socket.io/socket.io-1.3.7.js

// Connect to the server
var socket = io.connect('http://james.local:8080');

// Listen to events
socket.on('FinerVision:connected', function (data) {
    // Emit an event to the server
    socket.emit('some.event', 'Some data');
    console.log(data);
});

composer.json

{
    "name": "laravel/laravel",
    "description": "The Laravel Framework.",
    "keywords": [
        "framework",
        "laravel"
    ],
    "license": "MIT",
    "type": "project",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.5.9",
        "laravel/framework": "5.1.*",
        "predis/predis": "^1.1@dev"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",
        "mockery/mockery": "0.9.*",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "~4.0",
        "phpspec/phpspec": "~2.1"
    },
    "autoload": {
        "classmap": [
            "database"
        ],
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/"
        }
    },
    "autoload-dev": {
        "classmap": [
            "tests/TestCase.php"
        ]
    },
    "scripts": {
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "php artisan clear-compiled",
            "php artisan optimize"
        ],
        "pre-update-cmd": [
            "php artisan clear-compiled"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "php artisan optimize"
        ],
        "post-root-package-install": [
            "php -r \"copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
        ],
        "post-create-project-cmd": [
            "php artisan key:generate"
        ]
    },
    "config": {
        "preferred-install": "dist"
    }
}

package.json

{
    "private": true,
    "devDependencies": {
        "gulp": "^3.8.8"
    },
    "dependencies": {
        "bootstrap-sass": "^3.0.0",
        "http": "0.0.0",
        "ioredis": "^1.10.0",
        "laravel-elixir": "^3.0.0",
        "socket.io": "^1.3.7"
    }
}

server.js

var server = require('http').Server();
var io = require('socket.io')(server);
var Redis = require('ioredis');
var redis = new Redis();

redis.subscribe('FinerVision');

redis.on('message', function (channel, message) {
    message = JSON.parse(message);

    io.emit(channel + ':' + message.event, message.data);

    console.log(channel + ':' + message.event, message.data);
});

server.listen(8080);

SocketController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

class SocketController extends Controller
{
    private $channel = 'FinerVision';

    public function index()
    {
        $data = [
            'event' => 'connected',
            'data' => [
                'status' => 'connected',
            ],
        ];

        $this->publish($data);

        return view('index');
    }

    private function publish($data)
    {
        \Redis::publish($this->channel, json_encode($data));
    }
}

Steps

Install Dependencies for Node and Laravel

$  npm install --save http ioredis socket.io
$  composer require predis/predis

Start Redis Server
Check if the server is running with (should see PONG as output)

$  redis-cli ping

Start the server with

$  redis-server