I've been working on a project called KAAL Realtime, and I'd love some feedback from the Laravel community.
The idea started with a simple question:
«Why do we need events, channels, Echo, frontend listeners, and a lot of wiring just to update a small section of a Blade page?»
I wanted something that felt native to Laravel.
So I built a package where you wrap a Blade block with a directive:
@realtime([Product::class])
@foreach($products as $product)
@endforeach
@endrealtime
Then on the model:
use HasRealtime;
class Product extends Model
{
use HasRealtime;
}
Whenever a Product changes, every connected browser automatically refreshes only that Blade fragment.
No page reload.
No polling.
No Laravel Echo.
No Pusher.
No Reverb.
No Livewire.
Some features:
- Automatic model-driven updates
- Native WebSocket gateway
- Signed fragment refreshes
- Authentication preserved during refreshes
- Pagination support
- Eager loading support
- Multiple model dependencies
- "@preserve" directive to keep input focus and typed values
- "@ignore" directive for Alpine components and rich editors
- AJAX forms with Laravel validation handling
Example:
@preserve('chat-input')
@endpreserve
The current architecture looks like:
Model Updated
↓
HasRealtime Trait
↓
KAAL Gateway
↓
WebSocket Broadcast
↓
Browser Refreshes Fragment
The package currently supports Laravel 11+.
I'm interested in honest feedback from Laravel developers:
- Is this something you'd actually use?
- What concerns would you have before deploying it?
- How does this compare to your current Livewire/Reverb setup?
- What features would be missing for production use?
Documentation:
https://docs.kaalrealtime.com
