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For those who are starting out in Laravel, they often end up wondering which component to use for background activities, Commands or Jobs?
And you know what? I've also had this same doubt, although in theory they are very similar, in practice not so much. I'll start by explaining a little about the two separately and to finish I'll give a more concise comparison of both.
Commands:
Jobs:
Final comparison:
Essentially, Commands are used for administrative or interactive tasks, while Jobs are ideal for background processing and asynchronous jobs.
I hope you enjoy this short but extremely important summary regarding these two super important components in the ecosystem not only of the Laravel framework, but also of the web in general. In this short post, I focused only on showing in which real situations both will be used and not the functionality within the service itself, which can be a separate subject for each of them in the next posts (as there is a lot of content?).
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