Pusher and the Queue Listener

Normally you would something like supervisor to keep your jobs running. If a task is stopped, supervisor can automatically restart it for you.

You can find more information here: https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/queues#supervisor-configuration

Thanks for the link.

Looks like I could use Forge and let it take care of Digital Ocean ... what about Laravel Valet ... I literally just spent 35 minutes looking for a bug until my co-worker reminded me the code is working and the tests prove it ... you queue is off.

Mmh not sure yet. I never experienced this with Valet though. You might be able to setup supervisor locally, but that would be beyond this point of course

Let me think about it!

Could I use a cron job running every five minutes with this

<?php

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use Illuminate\Console\Command;

class CheckQueue extends Command
{
    protected $signature = 'queue:checkup';

    protected $description = 'Ensure that the queue listener is running.';

    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function handle()
    {
        $this->call('queue:restart');
        $this->comment('Queue listener is running.');
    }
}

That would be a good idea, but it's still wrong that you need to restart something while it should stay running by default.

For now that would be a good solution ;)