API Rest with Laravel 5.6 Passport Authentication — Send Notifications with Queues on Redis (Part 5)

Alfredo Barron
modulr
Published in
3 min readSep 14, 2018

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We learning how to send Notifications with management to queues using Redis. In this tutorial we will use the Notifications created previously in the previous tutorials.

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Install Redis
Config Enviroment
Install Redis Driver
Run the Queue Worker
Install andConfigure supervisor

Step 1 Install Redis

In first step, we install Redis for this I let you two great tutorials for MacOsx and Linux.

Ubuntu 16.04

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-redis-on-ubuntu-16-04

MacOsx

https://medium.com/@petehouston/install-and-config-redis-on-mac-os-x-via-homebrew-eb8df9a4f298

Step 2 Config Enviroment

In this step we will config our .env file, add redis into QUEUE_DRIVER variable also change the REDIS_ variables, finally config the e-mail service. I recomend Mailtrap to test.

QUEUE_DRIVER=redisREDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PASSWORD=null
REDIS_PORT=6379

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