Hello amazing coders, today we will to dive into the essentials of background processing in Laravel using Laravel's powerful queueing system.😃 Ready to take your Laravel skills to the next level?
Introducing Laravel Queues ⏩
Queues in Laravel are used to execute time-consuming tasks in the background, freeing your application to respond to other user demands 💪. Think user email verification, bulk data exports, resizing images, you name it. Let’s get our hands dirty with some code.
Set Up Your New Laravel Project 🛠
First, we need to set up a fresh Laravel project:
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel laravel-queues
👆 This command creates a new Laravel project titled laravel-queues in your directory.
Setting Up Laravel Horizon
For advanced queues management, Laravel comes with a beautiful dashboard called Horizon. To install it, use Composer, Laravel's dependency management tool.
composer require laravel/horizon
After installation you'll need to publish the Horizon assets with:
php artisan horizon:install
With these steps, Laravel Horizon is setup successfully. By visiting your-domain.dev/horizon in your browser, you should see the Horizon dashboard.
Writing our First Laravel Job 📝
Jobs in Laravel are the units of work that are added onto your queue and processed in the background. They live in the app/Jobs directory. Let's create our first Job.
php artisan make:job ProcessPodcast
This command will create a new ProcessPodcast class in your app/Jobs directory.
namespace App\Jobs;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
class ProcessPodcast implements ShouldQueue
{
use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;
public function handle()
{
// Process the podcast...
}
}
This is a basic job setup. You can add your time-consuming tasks in the handle method.
Summary 🏁
That's the gist of background processing in Laravel. We've managed to:
- Setup a new Laravel project.
- Install and configure Laravel Horizon for easier queue management.
- Write our first Laravel Job.
However remember, Laravel offers several ways to customize the behavior of your queues according to your needs. The official Laravel Queue documentation is a great place to dig deeper!
NOTE: The technologies used in this post are in constant evolution. Some features or practices may have changed since the time of writing.
Happy coding! 🎉
References:
- Laravel documentation: Laravel Queues
- Laravel Horizon documentation: Laravel Horizon
