Laravel Web Push Example

A basic example of using webpush notifications with laravel and Javascript. Push Notifications are a part of Service Workers and It requires HTTPS unless you are using localhost.

Running this web application

• make sure you have xampp or wamp installed if you are on windows machine, mamp for mac , and lamp for linux.

• clone this repository to your local machine or just download the zip.

• install Composer first, then run this command in your command-line (you should be inside your project directory).

  composer install

• rename .env.example to .env and configure your database.

• generate application key.

    php artisan key:generate

• create tables by migrations.

    php artisan migrate

• Generate VAPID Keys (this command will place the VAPID keys in your .env file).

    php artisan webpush:vapid

• Add the VAPID public key to application server key in enable-push.js file located in public/js directory, here's the link to that line

• Start Laravel dev server.

    php artisan serve

• Read the entire tutorial Push Notifications with Laravel and Webpush on Medium.

• Webpush package is used by this app.