Show HN: Lightspeed, build real time apps the Laravel way (+asteroids demo)

17 pointsposted 2 days ago
by jv22222

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5 Comments

lwi00

a day ago

would be great to have the control commands for the game

jv22222

a day ago

They're on the idle screen under the title, but easy to miss: space (or W / up) to fly and fire, one key does both, A D (or arrows) to turn, S for shield. On a phone, turn it sideways and tap to fly.

lwi00

9 hours ago

thanks for the clarification

AlchemistCamp

2 days ago

How does this relate to Laravel LiveWire?

jv22222

2 days ago

It doesn't! Livewire is a way to build UI/form interactions over http/js.

Lightspeed is a websocket server.

Livewire talks to the server over normal HTTP requests and for anything pushed from the server it uses Laravel Echo. Lightspeed is a Pusher-compatible server so you'd point Echo at it like you would Reverb.

The thing Lightspeed adds is letting the browser send messages back into Laravel over that same socket, with auth on each one. Livewire doesn't do that its actions are still HTTP.

For most applications Livewire would be the goto. Lightspeed is kind of a high speed specialist option for building real time apps like you might do with node.js for exmaple.