Laravel 5 Interface 'Illuminate\Contracts\Broadcasting\ShouldBroadcast' not found

Question

Currently I am trying to setup socket.io & redis for my laravel 5 project. I've created a event that uses Interface Illuminate\\Contracts\\Broadcasting\\ShouldBroadcast. But I am getting the following error :

Interface 'Illuminate\Contracts\Broadcasting\ShouldBroadcast' not found

Answer 1

Laravel 5.0 does not have event broadcasting, that's why the interface can't be found. See the Event docs here from 5.0:

https://laravel.com/docs/5.0/events

Broadcasting was introduced in 5.1:

https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/events#broadcasting-events

Some reference material:

• https://laracasts.com/lessons/broadcasting-events-in-laravel-5-1
• http://www.sitepoint.com/real-time-apps-laravel-5-1-event-broadcasting/
• https://mattstauffer.co/blog/broadcasting-events-with-pusher-socket-in-laravel-5.1