it would have to be done using some frontend technology (backbone/angular etc or even jquery) that would keep on hitting your bckend laravel every second.. to update chat window and when user enters/sends a message
this is easy and there are 100s of tutorials out there. You can use Laravel queue system on the back end , for the front end use autobahn.js together with vue.js or angular.js
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