We need a central clock to correctly synchronize an auctions system. We show how to do it in Express and in Laravel.

Build periodic and one-shot timers in PHP using ReactPHP

A real-time auctions web site may seem complicated. Submitting a bid is just a button click, but how are you going to display it to other users in real-time. One can think of all sorts of complicated jQuery timers and calls, but there is a much simpler way with Node.js - JavaScript on the server