Filament Gaze: Show When Multiple Users View the Same Resource

Filament Gaze is a plugin for Filament PHP that allows you to display when other users view the same resource. This plugin provides a nice API to make a simple banner or even allow authorized users to take control of a locked page. Here's the most basic example of using Gaze with a form:

public static function form(Form $form): Form
{
    return $form
        ->schema([
            GazeBanner::make(),
                
            // ...
        ]);
}

Main features:

• Quickly display when other users are on the same resource
• Configurable poll time to determine how often it should inform Filament and get a list of users still viewing the page
• Lock a resource
• Allow lock overrides, supporting custom logic
• Conditionally hide the banner

My favorite feature is the canTakeControl() method, which lets you define custom logic for taking over a page that someone else has control over:

GazeBanner::make()
    ->lock()
    ->canTakeControl(fn() => auth()->user()->isAdmin())

Using the above code, the owning user will see that they have control of the page and which other users are on the page. Here's the interface when a user does not have control of a page, but has permission to take control:

You can get started with this package, including full documentation on GitHub at discoverydesign/filament-gaze. This plugin is also listed on the Filament community plugin page.

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