Modern Laravel applications experience asynchronous workflows, event sourcing and delayed execution. Laravel has a capable queue system to handle delay event handling or storing a historical log of all changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Delayed event processing in Laravel is intentionally delaying a specific event listener for a fixed time. This is a useful practice for offloading time-consuming tasks like emails, data sync with third-party services or creating background reports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Problem Statement:<\/strong> Sending a welcome email 10 minutes after a user signs up when you have a UserRegistered event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n bash<\/p>\n\n\n\n In your SendWelcomeEmail listener:<\/p>\n\n\n\n PHP<\/p>\n\n\n\n The $delay property automatically instructs Laravel to delay the job execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PHP<\/p>\n\n\n\n In .env:<\/p>\n\n\n\n env<\/p>\n\n\n\n Start the queue worker:<\/p>\n\n\n\n bash<\/p>\n\n\n\n Event sourcing is a pattern where every change in the application’s state is stored as a sequence of events<\/strong>. Instead of saving just the current state in the database, you store each action, then rebuild the current state by replaying those events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Laravel doesn’t include event sourcing out of the box, but you can use packages like Spatie’s Laravel Event Sourcing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n bash<\/p>\n\n\n\n bash<\/p>\n\n\n\n This event can store data like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n PHP<\/p>\n\n\n\n bash<\/p>\n\n\n\n PHP<\/p>\n\n\n\n This event is stored, and replayed later if needed to rebuild the product inventory state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Separate event storage<\/strong> from your core business logic for scalability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Modern Laravel applications experience asynchronous workflows, event sourcing and delayed execution. Laravel has a capable queue system to handle delay event handling or storing a historical log of all changes. What Is Delayed Event Processing in Laravel? Delayed event processing in Laravel is intentionally delaying a specific event listener for a fixed time. This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laravel","category-web"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Step 1: Create the Event and Listener<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
php artisan make:event UserRegistered\nphp artisan make:listener SendWelcomeEmail --event=UserRegistered<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nStep 2: Implement the Listener with Delay<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
use Illuminate\\Contracts\\Queue\\ShouldQueue;\nuse Illuminate\\Queue\\InteractsWithQueue;\n\nclass SendWelcomeEmail implements ShouldQueue\n{\n use InteractsWithQueue;\n\n public $delay = 600; \/\/ Delay in seconds (600 = 10 minutes)\n\n public function handle(UserRegistered $event)\n {\n Mail::to($event->user->email)->send(new WelcomeMail($event->user));\n }\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nStep 3: Dispatch the Event<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
event(new UserRegistered($user));<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nStep 4: Configure the Queue (Optional but Recommended)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
QUEUE_CONNECTION=redis<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nphp artisan queue:work<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nWhat Is Event Sourcing in Laravel?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Example: Event Sourcing with Spatie<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Step 1: Install the Package<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
composer require spatie\/laravel-event-sourcing<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nStep 2: Create an Event<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
php artisan make:storable-event ProductAddedToInventory<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nclass ProductAddedToInventory extends StoredEvent\n{\n public function __construct(public string $productId, public int $quantity) {}\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nStep 3: Projector to Handle Event Logic<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
php artisan make:projector InventoryProjector<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nclass InventoryProjector extends Projector\n{\n public function onProductAddedToInventory(ProductAddedToInventory $event)\n {\n $product = Product::find($event->productId);\n $product->increment('quantity', $event->quantity);\n }\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nStep 4: Dispatch the Event<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
event(new ProductAddedToInventory($productId, 50));<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nUse Cases for Delayed Events and Event Sourcing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Use Case<\/strong><\/td> Approach<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Send follow-up emails later<\/td> Delayed Event<\/td><\/tr> Schedule background jobs<\/td> Delayed Listener<\/td><\/tr> Audit logs of changes<\/td> Event Sourcing<\/td><\/tr> Rebuild historical state<\/td> Event Sourcing<\/td><\/tr> Third-party API sync delay<\/td> Queued + Delayed<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Best Practices<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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