Laravel Echo Vue Helpers

configureEcho

You must call this function somewhere in your app before you use useEcho in a component to configure your Echo instance. You only need to pass the required data:

import { configureEcho } from "@laravel/echo-vue";

configureEcho({
    broadcaster: "reverb",
});

Based on your brodcaster, the package will fill in appropriate defaults for the rest of the config based on the Echo documentation. You can always override these values by simply passing in your own.

In the above example, the configuration would also fill in the following keys if they aren't present:

{
    key: import.meta.env.VITE_REVERB_APP_KEY,
    wsHost: import.meta.env.VITE_REVERB_HOST,
    wsPort: import.meta.env.VITE_REVERB_PORT,
    wssPort: import.meta.env.VITE_REVERB_PORT,
    forceTLS: (import.meta.env.VITE_REVERB_SCHEME ?? 'https') === 'https',
    enabledTransports: ['ws', 'wss'],
}

Connection Status

You can get the current WebSocket connection status using the useConnectionStatus composable or the echo().connectionStatus() utility function.

useConnectionStatus Composable (Reactive)

The useConnectionStatus composable provides reactive connection status that automatically updates when the connection state changes. Use this in Vue components that need to display live connection status:

<script setup>
import { useConnectionStatus } from "@laravel/echo-vue";

const status = useConnectionStatus(); // Automatically updates when status changes

const getStatusColor = (status) => {
    switch (status) {
        case "connected":
            return "green";
        case "connecting":
            return "yellow";
        case "reconnecting":
            return "orange";
        case "failed":
            return "red";
        default:
            return "gray";
    }
};
</script>

<template>
    <div :style="{ color: getStatusColor(status) }">
        Connection: {{ status }}
    </div>
</template>

Status Values

• "connected" - Successfully connected to the WebSocket server
• "disconnected" - Not connected and not attempting to reconnect
• "connecting" - Initial connection attempt in progress
• "reconnecting" - Attempting to reconnect after a disconnection
• "failed" - Connection failed and won't retry

useEcho Hook

Connect to private channel:

import { useEcho } from "@laravel/echo-vue";

const { leaveChannel, leave, stopListening, listen } = useEcho(
    `orders.${orderId}`,
    "OrderShipmentStatusUpdated",
    (e) => {
        console.log(e.order);
    },
);

// Stop listening without leaving channel
stopListening();

// Start listening again
listen();

// Leave channel
leaveChannel();

// Leave a channel and also its associated private and presence channels
leave();

Multiple events:

useEcho(
    `orders.${orderId}`,
    ["OrderShipmentStatusUpdated", "OrderShipped"],
    (e) => {
        console.log(e.order);
    },
);

Specify shape of payload data:

type OrderData = {
    order: {
        id: number;
        user: {
            id: number;
            name: string;
        };
        created_at: string;
    };
};

useEcho<OrderData>(`orders.${orderId}`, "OrderShipmentStatusUpdated", (e) => {
    console.log(e.order.id);
    console.log(e.order.user.id);
});

Connect to public channel:

useEchoPublic("posts", "PostPublished", (e) => {
    console.log(e.post);
});

Connect to presence channel:

useEchoPresence("posts", "PostPublished", (e) => {
    console.log(e.post);
});

Listening for model events:

useEchoModel("App.Models.User", userId, ["UserCreated", "UserUpdated"], (e) => {
    console.log(e.model);
});