Building an Artisan command
First, we will build an Artisan command. This is my favorite feature of Laravel. It is a nice wrapper around the Symfony console, making it easy to make commands. Commands are a key solution to long-running background processes or to those commands which you need to maintain your site and more.
For example, many projects that I am working on use this for creating Oauth tokens, stub data for a complex data set, and more; it is also used to run code optimizations using tools such as php-cs-fixer.
Here, we will build a command to search for the latest comics of user favorites that we will use later for scheduled commands.
Getting ready
A fresh install of Laravel is fine. I am still working inside the context of the comic book ...
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