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Swaz's avatar
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What is the point of `concurrently` in package.json

I noticed that new Laravel apps ship with concurrently in package.json.

  1. Does anyone know where this is being used?

  2. And is there any reason I should not remove it? I don't plan on using it, unless vite or tailwind or something requires it. Everything seems to work fine without it though.

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jj15
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Taylor added a composer run dev command a little while ago. It uses concurrently to run php artisan serve, php artisan queue:listen, php artisan pail, and npm run dev at the same time in the same terminal window, making it a bit easier to get everything going.

If you don't plan to use the composer run dev command, you should be fine to uninstall it.

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