Building a Real-Time Dashboard with Laravel and WebSockets
· 8 min read
Real-time features are no longer a “nice to have.” Dashboards, notifications, live metrics, and collaborative tools are now expected behaviors in modern applications.
As Laravel developers, we’re in a great position: the ecosystem offers first-class support for WebSockets through Laravel Echo and Reverb. Still, many tutorials stop at theory or overused chat examples.
In this Laravel WebSockets tutorial, I want to share a practical, production-adjacent example: a real-time dashboard that updates totals instantly, without polling, using Echo and Reverb.
This is a hands-on guide aimed at developers who want to understand how WebSockets actually work in Laravel, not just copy-paste code.