Run queues in the background on Development in Laravel.

Hi folks, in this post I will write about a simple command to get our queues running in the background, It will be helpful if you want to execute at least one time to show the functunallity:

The command

php artisan queue:work &

You can review your jobs with the command:

jobs

And you can get the process id by the job command with the flag “l”

jobs -l

Ok… but how I can store the jobs into a log file… that could be useful and yes there is a command to make it:

php artisan queue:work >storage/logs/yourjobsfilename.log

Now you can go to “storage/logs/” directory and you will see the log file with the name you choose, and if you make events with listeners that implements f “ShouldQueue” interface you will be able to see the logs in your file.

A little Reminder

To create a event with queues listeners you need to change your env file from:

QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync

To

QUEUE_CONNECTION=database

If you are going to work with “database” connection is neccesary to run the next migrations:

php artisan queue:table

php artisan migrate

Also have an Event and a Listener that implements the “ShouldQueue” interface, and by last register the event associated with the listener or listeners in your “providers/EventProvider.php” path and in “EventProvider.php” file add your event and listeners with the next notation as example:

protected $listen = [
  Registered::class => [
    SendEmailVerificationNotification::class,
  ],
];

Remeber Its important to kill your background process

you can use the next command to kill your process

jobs -l
KILL <theProcessIdNumber>

Thanks for reading and Happy coding!