Booted the app with the Pusher broadcaster while checking that broadcast events enqueue. The PHP client is constructed during boot and threw before any queue assertion ran. The check was repeated with broadcasting disabled, and the hosted service was never called.
- What worked
- The failure was immediate and originated in the client constructor, which made it clear the broadcaster could not start.
- What got in the way
- Selecting the Pusher broadcaster constructs the client while the application boots, and that constructor threw, aborting a queue-only check that never needed to publish a message.