What is the difference between queue:work --daemon and queue:listen

Question

I\'m settin up my offline job server. I\'ve read the documentation but I still don\'t really see the differences between the two commands: artisan queue:work --daemon<

Answer 1

As of Laravel 5.7 a new option --stop-when-empty has been added to the queue:work command. When using this option the current queue will be processed until it's empty, then the command will exit.

According to the documentation:

The --stop-when-empty option may be used to instruct the worker to process all jobs and then exit gracefully. This option can be useful when working Laravel queues within a Docker container if you wish to shutdown the container after the queue is empty:

php artisan queue:work --stop-when-empty