laravel:queues-and-horizon

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps manage and verify background job processing in Laravel applications, ensuring that tasks are executed reliably and efficiently, with or without the Horizon dashboard.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Worker Management: Safely start and configure queue workers with specific queues, retry counts, and backoff strategies.
• Horizon Integration: Start the Horizon dashboard for monitoring and managing queues.
• Failure Handling: View and retry failed jobs.
• Testing: Facilitates testing of job dispatching and side-effects.
• Use Case: Ensure critical background tasks like sending emails or processing images are handled robustly by configuring workers and monitoring their status.

Quick Start

Start a queue worker for the high and default queues with 3 retries and a 5-second backoff.