Welcome to the course! In this episode, we kick things off by talking about what you'll learn. We're going to take an application (like a real-time chat or something similar that broadcasts messages to clients) and get it deployed to Laravel Forge. This way, you'll know exactly how to go from running your app locally to having it live in production.

I've kept the lessons nice and bite-sized, so you can easily come back and revisit any step you need. We'll walk through everything you need to get a real-time app up and running, covering all the key configuration bits that Forge makes simple—but there are still a couple of details to get right.

If you want to follow along, we’ll set things up locally first, and then we’ll move on to creating and configuring your server on Forge for real-time production use. Let’s get started!