Modern and simple PHP task runner

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Automate common tasks:

  • writing cross-platform scripts
  • processing assets (less, sass, minification)
  • running tests
  • executing daemons (and workers)
  • watching filesystem changes
  • deployment with sftp/ssh/docker

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To install globally put robo.phar in /usr/bin . ( /usr/local/bin/ in OSX 10.11+)

Now you can use it simply via robo .

  • Run composer require consolidation/robo:^3
  • Use vendor/bin/robo to execute Robo tasks.

All tasks are defined as public methods in RoboFile.php . It can be created by running robo init . All protected methods in traits that start with task prefix are tasks and can be configured and executed in your tasks.

open in new window . There are also some basic example commands in examples/RoboFile.php .

Here are some snippets from them:

Run acceptance test with local server and selenium server started.

If you execute robo you will see this task added to list of available task with name: test:acceptance . To execute it you should run robo test:acceptance . You may change path to selenium server by passing new path as a argument:

Using watch task so you can use it for running tests or building assets.

Cleaning logs and cache

This task cleans app/cache and app/logs dirs (ignoring .gitignore and .gitkeep files) Can be executed by running:

Creating Phar archive

We need more tasks!

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Another PHP task runner.

Scrutinizer Code Quality

Got a PHP project? Heard of Grunt and Gulp but don't use NodeJS? Task is a pure PHP task runner.

  • Leverage PHP as a scripting language, and as your platform of choice.
  • Use loads of nice features inspired by Grunt and Gulp (and Phing).
  • Employ Symfony components for effortless CLI goodness.
  • Extend with plugins.

Ask us anything on Twitter at @taskphp .

Installation

Add to your composer.json :

This will allow you to instantiate a Task\Project . To run tasks from the command line, install task/cli . You should probably do this now!

There are 3 options for installation:

#1 Composer global (recommended)

If you haven't installed anything this way before you'll need to update your PATH :

Download from Github:

#3 Composer

Run at ./vendor/bin/task .

The only requirements are that you implement a Taskfile that returns a Task\Project :

We suggest putting the Taskfile in the root of your project. The CLI package will look for a Taskfile in the current working directory, so cd in to your project and run:

If you've used Symfony's Console component before this will look familiar! Your Task\Project is a Symfony\Component\Console\Application and so you have a pretty CLI application out of the box.

Add a task:

As you can see, tasks are just Closure s. To run it:

Plugins are where the real work gets done.

This is a totally pointless example but it demonstrates some core concepts.

Dependency injection is used to setup plugins and inject them into tasks. Project::inject allows you to fill a Pimple container up with anything you like.

Plugins are injected into tasks using Task\Injector . Instead of a Closure , pass Project::addTask an array with your task as the last element. The preceding elements should be IDs stored in the container; they will be retrieved and passed as arguments to the task.

Plugins are encouraged to use NodeJS-style streams for handling data flows. Task\Plugin\Stream\ReadableInterface provides read and pipe methods, Task\Plugin\Stream\WritableInterface provides a write method. In the example above ProcessPlugin::build returns a Task\Plugin\Process\ProcessBuilder , which implements ReadableInterface , allowing us to pipe a Task\Plugin\Console\Output\Output instance to it, which implements WritableInterface .

  • See nikic's article on PHP over XML for a great argument for using pure PHP for configuration.

Alternatives

There's a few PHP task runners popping up:

  • Bldr - http://bldr.io/
  • Robo - http://codegyre.github.io/Robo/

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  • patchwork/jsqueeze : ^2
  • pear/archive_tar : ^1.4.4
  • phpunit/phpunit : ^7.5.20 || ^8
  • squizlabs/php_codesniffer : ^3.6
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  • pear/archive_tar : Allows tar archives to be created and extracted in taskPack and taskExtract, respectively.
  • totten/lurkerlite : For monitoring filesystem changes in taskWatch
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Modern and simple PHP task runner inspired by Gulp and Rake aimed to automate common tasks:

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  • writing cross-platform scripts
  • processing assets (less, sass, minification)
  • running tests
  • executing daemons (and workers)
  • watching filesystem changes
  • deployment with sftp/ssh/docker

All three branches of Robo are currently supported, although the 2.x and 1.x branches receive minimum support. All versions are roughly compatible; the breaking changes introduced at each major version are fairly minor, and typically only affect classes that are not used by most clients.

Download robo.phar >

To install globally put robo.phar in /usr/bin . ( /usr/local/bin/ in OSX 10.11+)

Now you can use it simply via robo .

  • Run composer require consolidation/robo:^4
  • Use vendor/bin/robo to execute Robo tasks.

All tasks are defined as public methods in RoboFile.php . It can be created by running robo init . All protected methods in traits that start with task prefix are tasks and can be configured and executed in your tasks.

The best way to learn Robo by example is to take a look into its own RoboFile or RoboFile of Codeception project . There are also some basic example commands in examples/RoboFile.php .

Here are some snippets from them:

Run acceptance test with local server and selenium server started.

If you execute robo you will see this task added to list of available task with name: test:acceptance . To execute it you should run robo test:acceptance . You may change path to selenium server by passing new path as a argument:

Using watch task so you can use it for running tests or building assets.

Cleaning logs and cache

This task cleans app/cache and app/logs dirs (ignoring .gitignore and .gitkeep files) Can be executed by running:

Creating Phar archive

We need more tasks!

Create your own tasks and send them as Pull Requests or create packages with "type": "robo-tasks" in composer.json on Packagist .

Follow @robo_php for updates.

Brought to you by Consolidation Team and our awesome contributors .

Task runner written in php

Tasker is simple & powerful task runner written in php.

Minimal configuration

Example of usage Tasker with default tasks

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PhpStorm lets you execute commands of the Robo PHP task runner right from the IDE.

If Robo is installed and initialized in your project, PhpStorm parses the contents of the RoboFile.php file, detects the public methods of the RoboFile class as executable commands, and displays them in a dedicated Robo tasks tool window. Alternatively, you can run the methods in the RoboFile.php file directly from the editor.

Robo overview in PhpStorm

Install and initialize Robo

To use Robo in PhpStorm, you need to install the Robo library in your project with Composer.

Inside composer.json , add the consolidation/robo dependency record to the require or require-dev key. To get code completion for the package name and version, press Control+Space .

Install the dependency to your project from composer.json by either of the following:

Click the Install shortcut link on top of the editor panel.

If the Non-installed Composer packages inspection is enabled, PhpStorm will highlight the declared dependencies that are not currently installed. Press Alt+Enter and select whether you want to install a specific dependency or all dependencies at once.

In the Terminal tool window, execute the robo init command to add a RoboFile.php file to the project root.

For guidance on adding commands to RoboFile.php , refer to the Robo documentation .

Run Robo tasks in PhpStorm

You can run a Robo command in PhpStorm by one of the following ways:

Double-clicking the command on the list in the Robo tasks tool window. To open the Robo tasks tool window, select the Robo tasks bar on the sidebar or select View | Tool Windows | Robo tasks from the main menu.

Robo tasks tool window

As a Run Anything action. Press Control twice to open the Run Anything popup and type the Robo command name in it.

Run Robo with Run Anything

Manage Robo run configurations

As with any other run/debug configuration in PhpStorm, you can save as permanent , share , create from a template , group in folders , or save for later use a run configuration for Robo.

Create a custom Robo run configuration

You can create a custom Robo run configuration or edit an existing default one.

Go to Run | Edit Configurations . Alternatively, select Edit Configurations from the list on the toolbar.

Open the Edit Configurations dialog

In the Robo configuration dialog that opens, fill out or edit the Robo-specific settings as follows:

Robo run configuration dialog

For more information about configuring general run configuration settings, refer to Run/debug configurations dialog .

Run a Robo configuration as a startup task

If you have Robo tasks that you run on a regular basis, you can add the corresponding run configurations to a list of startup tasks in the Startup Tasks settings . The added tasks will be executed automatically on each project startup.

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Key Features

  • Blazing fast
  • Easy to configure
  • Dependency free

About Blend

Blend is a versatile and lightweight PHP task runner, designed with simplicity in mind. Blend was created out of frustration of trying to manage multiple CLI Tools and/or Scripts with different interfaces and trying to remember their names, locations, syntax, and options/arguments. With Blend and its intuitive and powerful API you will have to do this only once, it will, well, as the name suggests blend it for you. Blend will present those CLI Tools and/or Scripts the way you like and give you the possibility to access all of them in the form of tasks from a single, beautiful, and insightful interface that will assist you, give you feedback, and suggestions throughout the process.

To keep it as portable and as simple as it can be, the Blend package consists of a single class ( TaskRunner ), this class does all the magic for you.

Blend was created to be flexible, it can be installed in many ways, each way has its benefits and drawbacks. Choose the installation method that suits you and your needs best. Check out the installation section for more details.

Why does Blend exist?

Blend was developed for personal use in the first place. However, it has come so far that it deserves to be published. It may not be what you are looking for, so check it out carefully.

Installation

Using composer:.

Require Blend through Composer using:

This is the recommended way to install Blend. With this installation method, Blend will be installed just like any normal Composer package. You can interact with it using either the vendor/bin/blend executable with a config file in the current working directory, or by requiring it in a stand-alone file and supplying the config programmatically. You can of course install it globally and let it be system-wide accessible.

Using PHAR:

Download Blend PHAR archive form the releases page or using one of the commands down below:

With this installation method, you will get Blend as a portable PHAR archive, you can place it anywhere you want or even include it in your PATH for easy access. With this installation method, you have to supply a config file in order to configure/customize Blend. This installation method exists for portability where Blend is not bound to a specific project and a config file is sufficient. Starting from v1.0.3 , the PHAR installation method is distinguished from other methods with the task phar:update that will update your PHAR to the latest release available in this repository.

Using Installer:

Download Blend Setup directly from the repository , or using one of the commands down below:

Using this method, the Blend executable and source will be installed in the current working directory (to take advantage of IDEs Intellisense when configuring Blend programmatically). With this installation method, you can configure Blend programmatically using the blend executable file or by supplying a config file in CWD. This installation method exists merely for legacy projects, where Composer is not an option and programmable config is required.

Blend can be configured using either of the two available config formats:

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PHP Config blend.config.php

Json config blend.config.json (recommended), how does config loading work.

Blend will try to load the config from the current working directory, if nothing is to be found there, it will go one level upwards and look in the parent directory and so on until it reaches the root directory. if it does not find anything there either, Blend will start without config.

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A basic Blend executable:

A more advanced blend executable:.

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Here is the full API of Blend ( TaskRunner class).

Public Methods

Protected methods, private methods, magic methods.

Blend is an open-source project licensed under the MIT license. Copyright (c) 2021 Marwan Al-Soltany. All rights reserved.

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When you are doing client-side development you are doing many repetitive tasks such as minifying scripts or stylesheet files, combining them and similar. You can use tools such as Grunt , or Gulp to automate them. What's best is they are fully supported in Visual Studio.

You can download a sample project from Github .

Preparing the project

To demonstrate you are going to create a new PHP project. Let's call it GruntSample .

Create a new PHP Project

When the project is created, create a new folder called public and set it as web root. Right click on project node in the Solution Explorer and select Properties . In the Application tab, fill web root property to public . This will be the folder which will be served by the server as a root of this web application.

Choose a PHP Project Template

Hit Ctrl+S to save the project file and you should see the changed icon of the public folder - indicating the folder is a web root.

Web root icon in the Solution Explorer

Move index.php to the web root, so the server has a default document it can serve. You can just drag and drop it in the Solution Explorer .

Then you are going to create a directory structure of the project. Create a folder assets and subdirectories css and js . They will contain unprocessed script and stylesheet files. The current directory structure should look like this.

To js folder, add the following javascript file site.js :

To css folder, add this file stylesheet.css :

Then update index.php in public folder, so it contains the following:

You've likely noticed js/site.min.js and css/styles.min.css don't exist, but Grunt is going to create them for us later.

Once you are done, your Solution Explorer should look like this:

Solution Explorer

Configuring npm

Before you are going to use Grunt , you will need to install it. For this you will need node.js and npm - it's package management tool. Make sure it's installed.

Then add package.json file to the project. Right click on the project node and select Add new item . Then select npm Configuration File .

Add new npm configuration file

Then copy the following content:

Btw. when you hover over the dependency nodes you will get a description about what id does.

Package.json tooltips

To save you from hovering, these dependencies are:

  • grunt: The Grunt task runner package.
  • grunt-contrib-cssmin: A plugin that minifies stylesheet to reduce size.
  • grunt-contrib-uglify: A plugin that minifies JavaScript to reduce size.
  • grunt-contrib-watch: A plugin that watches file activity.

Open the Terminal ( Ctrl+` ).

Terminal Command

And run npm install , which will install all the dependencies we've defined in the package.json . Btw. you can run npm install for each of these packages separetly, but there's no need now, when we know what we want in advance.

Running npm install

Running npm install each time project loads

Since you might want to share this project with other team members, or you would like to open in on other machine. It's useful to make sure all these packages get installed when the project opens. You can use Events for that.

Go to the project properties. Right click on project node in the Solution Explorer and select Properties . Choose Events tab. Click Add action.. next to the Project Opened event and fill the command.

Project Opened event

Click Ok . The event is set.

PHP Project Events

Now, when somebody opens this project npm install will be called - making sure all the grunt packages are installed.

Configuring Grunt

Now, when you have Grunt installed we'll have to configure it, so it does something useful.

First, create a Grunt Configuration File .

Add new Grunt configuration file

The file looks like this.

Minifying JavaScript

Now, we would like to minify the assets/js/site.js file and copy it to the public/js folder. Update the Gruntfile.js .

grunt.loadNpmTasks loads grunt-contrib-uglify task, which we've configured in the grunt.initConfig method. target defines what files are going to be minified and where the result should be placed.

Minifying CSS

In the similar way, you will add minification of css files.

cssmin section defines what to minify and where to place the result and loadNpmTasks loads the task.

Combining it

Now we have two tasks defined, we can create one task which will call them both. Let's just call it build . After the loadNpmTasks method calls add the following line.

This is also called Alias task and when you call it, it will invoke both uglify and cssmin .

Task Runner Explorer

Let's try if it works. Open the Task Runner Explorer . You can find it at View | Other Windows | Task Runner Explorer or hit Ctrl+Al+Bkspce .

Task Runner Explorer Command

You should see two tasks we've previously defined and one alias task.

Task Runner Explorer

Right click on build task and click Run .

Task Runner Explorer

Congrats, both javascript and stylesheet files have been minified and copied to the public folder. You project in the Solution Explorer should look like this.

Solution Explorer

You can go ahead and run it F5 .

Project output in the browser

Watching for changes

One way how we could improve the project is to use watch task, which will monitor assets folder and run the build task when files change. This way you will not have to call build each time you make a change.

This would be a resulting gruntfile.js .

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Watch task is running

Binding to Visual Studio events

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Right click on default task, select Bindings and choose Project Opened .

Task Runner Explorer - Bindings

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Task Scheduling

Introduction, scheduling artisan commands, scheduling queued jobs, scheduling shell commands, schedule frequency options, preventing task overlaps, running tasks on one server, background tasks, maintenance mode, sub-minute scheduled tasks, running the scheduler locally, task output.

In the past, you may have written a cron configuration entry for each task you needed to schedule on your server. However, this can quickly become a pain because your task schedule is no longer in source control and you must SSH into your server to view your existing cron entries or add additional entries.

Laravel's command scheduler offers a fresh approach to managing scheduled tasks on your server. The scheduler allows you to fluently and expressively define your command schedule within your Laravel application itself. When using the scheduler, only a single cron entry is needed on your server. Your task schedule is defined in the app/Console/Kernel.php file's schedule method. To help you get started, a simple example is defined within the method.

Defining Schedules

You may define all of your scheduled tasks in the schedule method of your application's App\Console\Kernel class. To get started, let's take a look at an example. In this example, we will schedule a closure to be called every day at midnight. Within the closure we will execute a database query to clear a table:

In addition to scheduling using closures, you may also schedule invokable objects . Invokable objects are simple PHP classes that contain an __invoke method:

If you would like to view an overview of your scheduled tasks and the next time they are scheduled to run, you may use the schedule:list Artisan command:

In addition to scheduling closures, you may also schedule Artisan commands and system commands. For example, you may use the command method to schedule an Artisan command using either the command's name or class.

When scheduling Artisan commands using the command's class name, you may pass an array of additional command-line arguments that should be provided to the command when it is invoked:

The job method may be used to schedule a queued job . This method provides a convenient way to schedule queued jobs without using the call method to define closures to queue the job:

Optional second and third arguments may be provided to the job method which specifies the queue name and queue connection that should be used to queue the job:

The exec method may be used to issue a command to the operating system:

We've already seen a few examples of how you may configure a task to run at specified intervals. However, there are many more task schedule frequencies that you may assign to a task:

These methods may be combined with additional constraints to create even more finely tuned schedules that only run on certain days of the week. For example, you may schedule a command to run weekly on Monday:

A list of additional schedule constraints may be found below:

Day Constraints

The days method may be used to limit the execution of a task to specific days of the week. For example, you may schedule a command to run hourly on Sundays and Wednesdays:

Alternatively, you may use the constants available on the Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule class when defining the days on which a task should run:

Between Time Constraints

The between method may be used to limit the execution of a task based on the time of day:

Similarly, the unlessBetween method can be used to exclude the execution of a task for a period of time:

Truth Test Constraints

The when method may be used to limit the execution of a task based on the result of a given truth test. In other words, if the given closure returns true , the task will execute as long as no other constraining conditions prevent the task from running:

The skip method may be seen as the inverse of when . If the skip method returns true , the scheduled task will not be executed:

When using chained when methods, the scheduled command will only execute if all when conditions return true .

Environment Constraints

The environments method may be used to execute tasks only on the given environments (as defined by the APP_ENV environment variable ):

Using the timezone method, you may specify that a scheduled task's time should be interpreted within a given timezone:

If you are repeatedly assigning the same timezone to all of your scheduled tasks, you may wish to define a scheduleTimezone method in your App\Console\Kernel class. This method should return the default timezone that should be assigned to all scheduled tasks:

[!WARNING] Remember that some timezones utilize daylight savings time. When daylight saving time changes occur, your scheduled task may run twice or even not run at all. For this reason, we recommend avoiding timezone scheduling when possible.

By default, scheduled tasks will be run even if the previous instance of the task is still running. To prevent this, you may use the withoutOverlapping method:

In this example, the emails:send Artisan command will be run every minute if it is not already running. The withoutOverlapping method is especially useful if you have tasks that vary drastically in their execution time, preventing you from predicting exactly how long a given task will take.

If needed, you may specify how many minutes must pass before the "without overlapping" lock expires. By default, the lock will expire after 24 hours:

Behind the scenes, the withoutOverlapping method utilizes your application's cache to obtain locks. If necessary, you can clear these cache locks using the schedule:clear-cache Artisan command. This is typically only necessary if a task becomes stuck due to an unexpected server problem.

[!WARNING] To utilize this feature, your application must be using the database , memcached , dynamodb , or redis cache driver as your application's default cache driver. In addition, all servers must be communicating with the same central cache server.

If your application's scheduler is running on multiple servers, you may limit a scheduled job to only execute on a single server. For instance, assume you have a scheduled task that generates a new report every Friday night. If the task scheduler is running on three worker servers, the scheduled task will run on all three servers and generate the report three times. Not good!

To indicate that the task should run on only one server, use the onOneServer method when defining the scheduled task. The first server to obtain the task will secure an atomic lock on the job to prevent other servers from running the same task at the same time:

Naming Single Server Jobs

Sometimes you may need to schedule the same job to be dispatched with different parameters, while still instructing Laravel to run each permutation of the job on a single server. To accomplish this, you may assign each schedule definition a unique name via the name method:

Similarly, scheduled closures must be assigned a name if they are intended to be run on one server:

By default, multiple tasks scheduled at the same time will execute sequentially based on the order they are defined in your schedule method. If you have long-running tasks, this may cause subsequent tasks to start much later than anticipated. If you would like to run tasks in the background so that they may all run simultaneously, you may use the runInBackground method:

[!WARNING] The runInBackground method may only be used when scheduling tasks via the command and exec methods.

Your application's scheduled tasks will not run when the application is in maintenance mode , since we don't want your tasks to interfere with any unfinished maintenance you may be performing on your server. However, if you would like to force a task to run even in maintenance mode, you may call the evenInMaintenanceMode method when defining the task:

Running the Scheduler

Now that we have learned how to define scheduled tasks, let's discuss how to actually run them on our server. The schedule:run Artisan command will evaluate all of your scheduled tasks and determine if they need to run based on the server's current time.

So, when using Laravel's scheduler, we only need to add a single cron configuration entry to our server that runs the schedule:run command every minute. If you do not know how to add cron entries to your server, consider using a service such as Laravel Forge which can manage the cron entries for you:

On most operating systems, cron jobs are limited to running a maximum of once per minute. However, Laravel's scheduler allows you to schedule tasks to run at more frequent intervals, even as often as once per second:

When sub-minute tasks are defined within your application, the schedule:run command will continue running until the end of the current minute instead of exiting immediately. This allows the command to invoke all required sub-minute tasks throughout the minute.

Since sub-minute tasks that take longer than expected to run could delay the execution of later sub-minute tasks, it is recommend that all sub-minute tasks dispatch queued jobs or background commands to handle the actual task processing:

Interrupting Sub-Minute Tasks

As the schedule:run command runs for the entire minute of invocation when sub-minute tasks are defined, you may sometimes need to interrupt the command when deploying your application. Otherwise, an instance of the schedule:run command that is already running would continue using your application's previously deployed code until the current minute ends.

To interrupt in-progress schedule:run invocations, you may add the schedule:interrupt command to your application's deployment script. This command should be invoked after your application is finished deploying:

Typically, you would not add a scheduler cron entry to your local development machine. Instead, you may use the schedule:work Artisan command. This command will run in the foreground and invoke the scheduler every minute until you terminate the command:

The Laravel scheduler provides several convenient methods for working with the output generated by scheduled tasks. First, using the sendOutputTo method, you may send the output to a file for later inspection:

If you would like to append the output to a given file, you may use the appendOutputTo method:

Using the emailOutputTo method, you may email the output to an email address of your choice. Before emailing the output of a task, you should configure Laravel's email services :

If you only want to email the output if the scheduled Artisan or system command terminates with a non-zero exit code, use the emailOutputOnFailure method:

[!WARNING] The emailOutputTo , emailOutputOnFailure , sendOutputTo , and appendOutputTo methods are exclusive to the command and exec methods.

Using the before and after methods, you may specify code to be executed before and after the scheduled task is executed:

The onSuccess and onFailure methods allow you to specify code to be executed if the scheduled task succeeds or fails. A failure indicates that the scheduled Artisan or system command terminated with a non-zero exit code:

If output is available from your command, you may access it in your after , onSuccess or onFailure hooks by type-hinting an Illuminate\Support\Stringable instance as the $output argument of your hook's closure definition:

Pinging URLs

Using the pingBefore and thenPing methods, the scheduler can automatically ping a given URL before or after a task is executed. This method is useful for notifying an external service, such as Envoyer , that your scheduled task is beginning or has finished execution:

The pingBeforeIf and thenPingIf methods may be used to ping a given URL only if a given condition is true :

The pingOnSuccess and pingOnFailure methods may be used to ping a given URL only if the task succeeds or fails. A failure indicates that the scheduled Artisan or system command terminated with a non-zero exit code:

All of the ping methods require the Guzzle HTTP library. Guzzle is typically installed in all new Laravel projects by default, but, you may manually install Guzzle into your project using the Composer package manager if it has been accidentally removed:

If needed, you may listen to events dispatched by the scheduler. Typically, event listener mappings will be defined within your application's App\Providers\EventServiceProvider class:

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5 Best Task Runner & Module Bundler Front-end Development Tools

Chetan chaand.

  • May 26, 2020
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5 Best Task Runner & Module Bundler Front-end Development Tools

As a front-end developer, you must be aware of the roles of task runner and module bundler tools. They run undercover automating and combining processes to make the final code seamless.

As the name implies, task runners automatically execute processes behind the scenes, saving both work and time, while module bundlers combine various files that can be executed together.

Both are practical front-end development tools that optimize performance by taking care of simple and repetitive processes. There are various task runner and module bundler tools to choose from. The question is, which ones are right for your needs?

Here’s a helpful guide to the most popular task runner and module bundler tools to choose from.

Five Popular Task Runner Tools

Grunt

The Grunt ecosystem is massive. Many of the tasks developers need to automate are available as plug-ins. There are hundreds of these available already.

Chances are, there will be one to suit your needs. If there isn’t, then creating a plug-in with Grunt is simple and convenient.

Grunt’s key features are:

  • You can automate repetitive tasks with minimum effort by simply creating a setup file. There are built-in tasks that extend functionality.
  • It’s based on NodeJS and is very flexible. It includes tasks in JS and config in JSON.
  • It allows developers to work with a new codebase as it has minimum infrastructure.
  • Grunt is robust and can advantageously be used for big production sites.

Gulp

Gulp lets you create efficient pipelines by taking advantage of the flexibility of JavaScript. It is supple, efficient, and provides you with speed and accuracy.

Gulp also has many community plug-ins, and there’s a good chance the process you need is already easily available.

Gulp’s key features are:

  • Aspects such as file watching are built-in.
  • Most plug-ins are simple and designed to do a single job.
  • It uses the JavaScript configuration code, which is simple and flexible.
  • It uses Node.js, so it can be faster.

Yarn Run

Yarn has a reputation for being quick, secure, and reliable. In essence, what it does is to let you use and share JavaScript code with other developers from all over the globe.

You can report issues or add to development, too. When the problem is fixed, you can use Yarn to keep it all up to date.

Its key features are:

  • It uses the Hadoop operating system, which means processes will be resilient and capable of distributing very large data sets.
  • You can use the Hadoop cluster in a dynamic instead of static manner.
  • There is a central controlling authority which, among other things, allows for immense scalability.
  • It is highly compatible with existing Hadoop MapReduce applications.

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4. Require JS

requirejs

Require is a JavaScript file optimized for in-browser use. It can also be used in other JavaScript environments. It manages the dependencies between files and improves the speed and quality of code.

It is also stable and provides support for plug-ins. It can easily load more than one JavaScript file at a time.

The key features of Require are:

  • It combines and streamlines modules into one script for optimal performance.
  • In the case of large-sized applications, it can reduce code complexity.
  • It can collect several JavaScript files from separate modules when compiling.
  • With React, debugging is simpler as it loads files from plain script tags.

brunch

Brunch focuses on the production of a small number of files that can be deployed from a large number of separate development trees. This front-end development tool provides smooth and quick work experience.

Brunch works across frameworks, libraries, and programming languages, which makes it very useful and flexible.

  • The commands are simple and easy to execute.
  • There is support for node programs.
  • You get source maps from the start.
  • It has the ability to create fast-zero builds as well as incremental builds.

Five Popular Module Bundlers

Webpack

Basically, Webpack is a static module bundler for the latest JavaScript applications. It works by building a dependency graph to map every module the project needs. In this way, it creates one or more handy bundles.

One of the main advantages of Webpack is that it is configurable to fit your specific needs.

  • It generates output based on configurations. You can also define split points to create separate bundles within the project code itself.
  • Its flexibility gives you control over how to treat different assets encountered.
  • Webpack relies on loaders and plug-ins. Loaders operate on a module level, while plug-ins rely on hooks provided.
  • There is a high learning curve, but Webpack’s advantages make this worth it.

Rollup js

Rollup compiles small pieces of JavaScript code into libraries or applications that can be large and complex.

Because it uses a standardized code format with ES modules, you can seamlessly combine useful individual functions from separate libraries.

  • It can optimize ES modules for faster native loading in the latest browsers.
  • It can “roll” and compress data into a single summary document for easy access.
  • It offers more elasticity because queries can identify the most minor available interval and use that for their processing.

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Fusebox Javascript

Fusebox is a highly customizable front-end development tool and comes with frequent updates. It is simple to configure and has powerful features.

It allows you to build an application quickly and with ease of use. Plug-ins allow you to employ anything that the Fusebox core doesn’t handle.

  • It uses a TypeScript compiler by default along with a powerful cache system.
  • There is zero-configuration code-splitting, for a simple configuration syntax.
  • It supports an integrated task runner for its extensive set of plug-ins.
  • It has a built-in task runner, and the project automatically updates to reflect your changes.
  • EMS dynamic imports are also supported.

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Parcel is a speedy, zero-configuration web app bundler. It uses worker processes for multicore compilation. It also has a filesystem cache for fast rebuilds.

With its simple, out-of-the-box operability, it improves performance and minimizes hassles during configuration.

  • You get support for JS, CSS, HTML, file assets, and more without plug-ins.
  • With Babel, PostCSS, and PostHTML, code is automatically transformed.
  • It splits output bundles, so you only load what is needed initially.
  • It highlights code frames when it encounters errors, so you can pinpoint problems.

5. Browserify

Browserify

Browserify lets you bundle dependencies in the browser. You can write code that uses ‘ require’ in the same way you would use it in Node.

It is simple, powerful, and easy to install. Its advantages are due to the ability to extend the Node ecosystem. It is flexible as it can be extended via plug-ins.

  • It minimizes many pre-processing tasks with a transformative system.
  • It solves the problems of asynchronous loading.
  • It allows you to participate in the vast and growing NPM ecosystem.

The Uplers Advantage

At Uplers, we have a skilled and experienced team of developers with a thorough working knowledge of the most useful task runner and module bundler tools. We use these as well as other front-end development tools to create professional and immersive websites.

If you’re looking for front-end developers to manage your projects in the best way possible, do get in touch with us. Discover the Uplers advantage!

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