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Queues in Laravel 12

Why Queues? First Example - Email Notification with Queue

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Summary of this lesson:
- Explaining why queues are needed: to prevent user wait times during slow operations like email sending
- Setting up queue database driver in Laravel 11 (default) and migrations
- Making Notifications queueable with ShouldQueue interface and Queueable trait
- Processing jobs with queue worker using php artisan queue:work
- Additional benefits: scalability on separate servers and automatic job retrying

Welcome to the course. We will begin talking about Laravel queues from a classic simple example: sending an email.


Why You Would Need Queues?

Sending an email takes time. If, for example, after registration, you need to send emails to administrators, this would fire several email notifications, and that could take a few seconds. Those couple of seconds are too long for the user to wait.


Example: Email Notifications to Administrators

Imagine a typical Laravel application scenario. The user registers to your application, and after it is created

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