Laravel Queues Tutorial: Running Jobs in the Background

Learn to optimize Laravel performance by offloading tasks to background queues. Master driver configuration, job dispatching, and Supervisor deployment.

Some tasks — sending emails, processing images, generating PDFs — take time. Making a user wait for these to finish before their page loads is a bad experience. Laravel Queues let you push slow tasks into the background so your app stays fast. How Queues Work (The Big Picture) You dispatch a Job (a class describing the task) Laravel stores it in a queue (database, Redis, etc.) A separate queue worker process picks it up and runs it — independently of your web request Step 1: Configure a Queue Driver In .env : QUEUE_CONNECTION=database For the database driver, create the required table: php artisan queue:table php artisan migrate (In production, most teams eventually move to redis for better performance — but database is perfectly fine to start.) Step 2: Create a Job php artisan make:job ProcessOrder namespace App\Jobs; use App\Models\Order; use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable; use Illuminate...

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