Adding User Interactivity to a Chatroom with Laravel, Vue.js and Stream Chat

In a tutorial exploring advanced functionalities of a chatroom application built with Laravel, Vue.js, and Stream Chat, various features are implemented to enhance user interaction. The tutorial introduces functionalities such as allowing users to manually join or leave channels, displaying notifications for when users enter or leave the chat, and showing a typing indicator when a user is composing a message. The leave and join channel features are achieved through methods in the ChatController class, which interact with the Stream Chat API to manage channel memberships. Notifications for user activity are handled by listening to Stream Chat events like member.added and member.removed, updating the interface accordingly. Additionally, typing indicators are implemented using typing.start and typing.stop events, providing real-time feedback within the chat application. The tutorial emphasizes utilizing Stream Chat’s events and methods to create a more dynamic and user-friendly chat experience, with all code examples and instructions available on GitHub for further exploration.