Tutorial: Build Customer Support Chat with Laravel, Vue and Stream

Quick and active customer service is crucial for businesses, especially those operating online, as it directly impacts customer perception and service usage. This tutorial guides users on building a live chat application using Laravel, Vue.js, and Stream Chat. Laravel, an open-source PHP framework, simplifies backend development with its MVC architectural pattern and Symfony foundation. Vue.js, a lightweight front-end framework, is supported by Laravel for building web applications. Stream Chat provides an API for creating scalable chat applications, allowing developers to focus on service deployment. The tutorial requires a basic understanding of Laravel, Vue.js, and JavaScript and provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a new Laravel application, installing necessary clients, creating components, and configuring routes. It explains creating chat views with Vue.js, managing channels and messages with Stream Chat, and implementing functionality for sending and receiving messages. The tutorial concludes with instructions for testing the chat application, emphasizing Stream Chat's capabilities for developing advanced real-time applications.