How to Use Queue in Laravel Application

Hello Geek, Queue in Laravel allow you to postpone a time-consuming task until a later date. You can significantly improve the performance of the Laravel application by delaying the time-consuming task.

This post will go over Laravel Queues, one of the best features of the Laravel framework.

Step 1: Download Laravel

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

Step 2: Database Setup for Laravel Queues

Before we can use Laravel Queues, we must first create a jobs table in the database to store all queues. Laravel includes the table creation command by default, so open your terminal and type the following command.

php artisan queue:table

The migration file will be created in the database/migrations folder. The newly created file will include the schema for the jobs table, which will be required to process the queues.

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;

class CreateJobsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('jobs', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->bigIncrements('id');
            $table->string('queue')->index();
            $table->longText('payload');
            $table->unsignedTinyInteger('attempts');
            $table->unsignedInteger('reserved_at')->nullable();
            $table->unsignedInteger('available_at');
            $table->unsignedInteger('created_at');
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('jobs');
    }
}

All the best nerd!