Category: Laravel Advanced Features
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When to Use Queues vs Events vs Scheduled Tasks
Introduction Laravel provides powerful tools for organizing backend logic and workflows: queues, events, and scheduled tasks. Each of these tools plays a unique role in building modern, scalable, and maintainable applications. Understanding when to use each tool is crucial for designing systems that perform efficiently and remain clean and easy to maintain. Queues help offload…
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Introduction to Task Scheduling in Laravel
Laravel includes a powerful Task Scheduling system that allows developers to automate repetitive tasks in a clean, expressive, and centralized way. Instead of creating dozens of messy system-level cron entries, Laravel lets you define scheduled commands inside a single file and run them automatically at defined intervals. This makes your application more maintainable, scalable, and…
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Notification Channels in Laravel
Laravel provides a powerful, flexible, and elegant notification system that helps you send messages across different channels such as email, SMS, database, broadcast, Slack, and more. Notifications are essential for modern applications that need to alert users about system events such as password resets, new orders, account updates, invoices, reminders, alerts, and confirmations. Instead of…
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Understanding Notifications in Laravel
Laravel Notifications provide a flexible, expressive, and unified way to send alerts or updates to users through a variety of channels. Whether you want to send an email, store a notification in the database, deliver an SMS message, notify a user through Slack, or broadcast a real-time update across the frontend, the Laravel Notification system…
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Laravel Listeners Explained
Introduction Events and listeners are one of the most elegant features of the Laravel framework. They allow developers to build applications that are clean, modular, scalable, and loosely coupled. Instead of writing long chains of dependent logic inside controllers or models, Laravel encourages you to separate tasks into self-contained, event-driven structures. When something important happens…
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What Are Events in Laravel?
Introduction Laravel provides a powerful event system that allows different parts of your application to communicate with each other without being tightly coupled. Events make your code clean, maintainable, and scalable by separating responsibilities. When something important happens in your application—such as a user registering, an order being placed, or a payment being processed—you can…
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Introduction to Jobs in Laravel
Laravel Jobs provide a powerful way to handle background processing, asynchronous tasks, and deferred execution. Instead of performing everything during a web request, you can offload long-running, expensive, or repetitive operations into jobs. Jobs are simple PHP classes that contain logic you want to run in the background, such as sending emails, processing video uploads,…
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What Are Queues in Laravel
Laravel Queues are one of the most powerful features in the framework. They allow your application to handle heavy, time-consuming, or asynchronous tasks in the background. Instead of making users wait while emails are being sent, reports are generated, or video files are processed, Laravel’s queue system offloads those tasks to background workers. This improves…