Laravel Horizon Demo

Laravel Horizon provides an easy-to-use, interactive GUI to monitor and interact with Redis queues.

Horizon was announced at Laracon US 2017 in NYC. It requires Laravel 5.5 to run (which is currently in beta).

Quick start

1. Clone this project.

2. Run php composer install.

3. Sign up for a free Mailtrap account and copy API credentials. We'll use Mailtrap to spoof outgoing emails using their demo inbox:

   

4. Enter values for these directives on your .env file:

• APP_KEY → Run php artisan key:generate to easily generate a base64-encoded key.
• MAIL_* → Enter Mailtrap credentials.
• REDIS_* → A standard Redis installation usually does not require you to change values.

1. Run php artisan config:cache to use the values set above.

2. Create a blank database.sqlite under your ./database directory.

3. Run php artisan migrate --seed to create a user table and seed it with dummy user information (e.g. name, email).

4. Run composer dump-autoload to clear the PHP class cache.

5. Open a new shell prompt and run php artisan serve to serve the web application on the foreground using PHP's built in web server.

   Note: On macOS, it's easier to use Laravel Valet.

6. Open a new shell prompt and run php artisan horizon on the foreground and view the Horizon dashboard at http://[app-host]/horizon.

   

7. By visiting http://[app-host]/queues/fetch-star-wars-entity?repeat=1&user_id=1, you can now test Horizon by creating a job that fetches a random Star Wars entity from the unofficial Star Wars public API and subsequently sends a notification email.

   

   

   Two async jobs are actually dispatched when you hit the URL above: (a) one that fetches from the Star Wars API and (b) another one that sends a notification email.

   

   Note: You can increase the number of requests sent (and conversely, resulting email notifications) by increasing the repeat query parameter to a higher number -- say, for example, 100. Just be aware that if using a service other than Mailtrap's demo inbox, you might get flagged for sending spam.

Requirements

• PHP v7.1
• Redis v3.x

Attributions

This wouldn't be possible without being granted a role as Software Developer at Pixel Fusion, an award-winning product development company at Parnell, Auckland.