Artisan reload command with event/hooks to restart services after updates

[barryvdh]

Issue

Currently, each 'service' has its own restart command:

• php artisan reverb:restart
• php artisan octane:reload
• php artisan queue:restart
• php artisan horizon:terminate
• php artisan pulse:restart

Deploy scrips (either with Laravel Forge, something like Capistrano/Deployer can be somewhat easily updated, but easy to forget. Manual deployments (eg. git pull) make it even more easy to forget one of those, leading to weird behavior.

Proposal

I propose a php artisan reload (or deploy / restart) to reload all those services at once. Each service should be responsible for registering itself to this reload command. This can be either:

• Add a command to some service (eg ReloadManager::addCommand('php artisan reverb:restart')
• Dispatch an event (Event::dispatch(new ReloadingLaravel); which packages can hook into.

Something similar is done with php artisan optimize although this one is not configurable. This makes it easy for deploy scripts to just add php artisan reload and not worry about specific services.

[Braunson]

Suggestion: Add these to a custom composer script... composer reload-services

"scripts": {
    "reload-services": [
        "@php artisan reverb:restart --quiet || true",
        "@php artisan octane:reload --quiet || true",
        "@php artisan queue:restart --quiet || true",
        "@php artisan horizon:terminate --quiet || true",
        "@php artisan pulse:restart --quiet || true",
    ]
}

[pelmered]

Yes, this helps a bit as you only need to edit in one place. But you still need to manage this and update this every time you install a package that needs a long running process. Leaving the responsibility for each package to register it self would be much nicer.