Laravel Messenger

Prerequisites

• Route model binding enabled in your API / WEB middleware groups.

Features

• Realtime messaging between multiple models.
• RESTful API, allowing you to create your own UI or connect to your mobile app.
• Private and group threads.
• Message reactions, replies, edits, and deletion.
• Send image, document, audio, and video messages.
• Group thread chat-bots. Ready-made bots
• Customize and create your own chat-bot handlers and bot packages. See the Chat Bots documentation.
• Add participants in a group thread from your friends list.
• Permissions per participant within a group thread.
• Friends, Search, and Online status systems.
• Private thread approval when the two participants are not friends.
• Provider avatars, group thread avatars, and bot avatars.
• Underlying calling system you can extend. See the Calling documentation.
• Group thread invitation links (like discord).
• All endpoints are protected behind policies.
• Scheduled commands for automated cleanup and checks.
• Queued jobs fired from our event subscribers.
• Most features can be toggled at runtime using our Messenger facade.
• MessengerComposer facade allows you to have easy access to the core actions anywhere within your own app, such as sending messages, images, reactions, and more.
• You can implement or extend your own BroadcastDriver, VideoDriver, and FriendDriver, simply by binding your classes into the container.
• Support for morph maps on your provider models. See: Morph Maps
• Optional extra payload when sending messages to allow custom json to be stored with the message.
• Owner relationships returns a Ghost Profile when not found (null-object pattern).
• Private threads auto-lock when the recipient is not found / deleted.

Upcoming for v2

• Temporary Ephemeral conversations.
• Improved API pagination / filters.
• Condense attachment routes.
• Possible extraction of friends system.
• Improved image manipulation / saving of multiple sizes.
• Encryption of messages (E2E is the long term goal).
• Translations for internal messages.
• Pinned messages.
• Chat-bots able to trigger off of an event.

Notes

• This is a Laravel package and must be installed in a laravel application to run.
• Read through the messenger.php config file before migrating!
• This is a pure backend driven package providing an API to interact with, thus no web UI or websocket implementation will be setup for you.
• Calling is disabled by default. You are responsible for implementing your own media server or connecting to a 3rd party provider.
• Configure your laravel applications broadcast driver and set up your websocket implementation to utilize the real-time broadcast emitted.

Installation

Composer

composer require rtippin/messenger

To complete the setup, please refer to the installation documentation listed below:

Documentation

• Install / Registering Providers

• Configuration

• Commands

• Broadcasting

• Events

• Chat Bots

• Calling

• Messenger Composer

• Helpers / Facades

• API Explorer

Addons / Demo

• Messenger Bots - Pre-made bots you can register within this package.
• Messenger Faker - Adds commands useful in development environments to mock/seed realtime events and messages.
• Messenger Web UI - Ready-made web routes and publishable views / assets, including default images.
• Demo App - A demo laravel app with this core package installed, including a Live Demo.

Credits - Richard Tippin

LICENSE

CHANGELOG

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email author instead of using the issue tracker.