IRC Like Real-Time Chat with Socket.io, Redis, and Vue.js 2 in Laravel 5 - Introduction

In this tutorial we will create a simplified real-time IRC-like chat in Laravel 5 using some additional technologies. It'll only have public channels available to everyone, no one-on-one private messaging, and no authentication. I'm going to use Laravel 5.6 for this series as this is the last version to date.