php In this tutorial, we will be implementing a real-time application with desktop notifications by utilizing your browser’s Notification API, Laravel, Pusher, and notifications via Twilio Programmable Messaging. The importance of organization and separation of concerns cannot be overemphasized in the software development industry. Events in Laravel are a great way to decouple event login within your application. We can define events to be triggered within our application when an action occurs, and we can define listeners to listen for such events and carry out other activities. The notification API allows us to watch channels we are broadcasting to from our backend, listen for the PostPublished and PostLiked events, and define a callback that activates the desktop notification whenever any of these events are fired. We also integrated Twilio SMS into this amazing application. To connect the Twilio SMS API to our application, create a Twilio account and select a Twilio phone number for our application. We will add the following lines of code in our config/services.php file to make the Twilio configuration variables available globally in our application. We also edited the PostController as shown below to enable SMS notification after post creation. Don’t forget to change the Twilio phone number used in this sample tutorial to yours. Finally, we tested the Laravel Desktop Notification App and found that it works perfectly with Pusher and events for notifications, and sends a confirmation SMS using the Twilio SDK. The source code of this application can be found on my Github repo here. As a next step, we will be integrating Twilio SMS into this amazing application.