Socket.io emit message to Laravel

I'm building an application which needs to emit messages back to the server. I'm using Laravel along with predis to handle server-side events.

Is it possible for socket.io to emit events which I can then listen for with predis?

Something like this on the client side:

io.emit('testChannel:someEvent', { dataOne: 'data', dataTwo: 'data' });

Then behind the scenes with Laravel:

public function listen()
{
    Redis::subscribe(['testChannel'], function($message) {
        dd($message);
    });
}

I wish I could provide more information, but I'm mightily confused by the entire process.

Thanks in advance.

via Chebli Mohamed