Polling

Livewire offers a directive called wire:poll that, when added to an element, will refresh the component every 2s.

<div wire:poll>
    Current time: {{ now() }}
</div>

You can customize the frequency by passing a directive modifier like 750ms. For example:

<div wire:poll.750ms>
    Current time: {{ now() }}
</div>

You can also specify a specific action to fire on the polling interval by passing a value to wire:poll:

<div wire:poll="foo">
    Current time: {{ now() }}
</div>

Now, the foo method on the component will be called every 2 seconds.

Polling in the background

Livewire reduces polling when the browser tab is in the background so that it doesn't bog down the server with ajax requests unnecessarily. Only about 5% of the expected polling requests are kept.

If you'd like to keep polling at the normal rate even while the tab is in the background, you can use the keep-alive modifier:

<div wire:poll.keep-alive>
    Current time: {{ now() }}
</div>