Execute Code After a Response is Returned?

The latest version of Laravel 11 includes a useful defer() function that allows us to execute a bit of logic after the response has been returned to the user. For any relatively long-running task, this can be a game-changer. Let's review how it works!
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[@mrjoekneeland]

I just learned 70 things in 14 minutes. Sweet new promo for laracasts at the end there. I'll be deferring tons. Thank you, Jeffrey and Laravel

[@gherosh]

wonder what issues timeouts causes with this defer 🤔

[@antdonn]

i’m working on a project, right now, this is magic !!

[@marcosaugustoschultzwutke6670]

Very good!!! I will use it in my applications. Thank you!

[@dhawanj5592]

Jeff I will meet you once in life from India

[@suikodevID]

So much knowledge to bite, delicious. but Where is the PHPStorm like usual

[@juanflores.director]

Nice lets try it out

[@gidaban79]

Just wonder. How it will works with try catch, cashier and stripe ?

[@ravenpk100]

is defer a good use case for when deleting a row can cascade into deleting multiple rows like up to 10000 or a queue and job would be better for this?

[@JohnnyBigodes]

If your project depends on it use the queue, otherwise use the defer. When something could go wrong and you need to retry, use always the queue.

[@hlorofos]

I suppose there is no guarantee this defer code will keep working for a long time in cloud setups, like Vapor? Lambda executor could be terminated and your defer code could end up with partial result, resulting in corrupted data.

[@renatofrota]

the "guarantee" is the same as if the code were executed without the defer. so if your time executing limitations is 30s and the task could not be completed as a regular code (before sending response to user) it won't execute as deferred code as well. this function is to be used to speed up navigation (do not make user wait for the small tasks to be completed before rendering page if these tasks will take just a few ms/secs and the probability of the successful completion is [near] 100%)

[@josephuisso244]

What will happen when the user navigates to another page will defer function still executed?

[@renatofrota]

the user's request results is already sent and the process is now running standalone, it has no clue what the user is doing on their end, so it keeps running no matter what the user does - unless you intentionally somehow "watch" for new incoming requests in the closure code your pass to the defer() function.

[@Wolfci]

It would be awesome when explaining when to use defer or jobs is to give examples like hey use defer for these scenarios that you would use in web development and use jobs for these examples could be short and simple explanation

[@renatofrota]

let's say you have a list of items, paginated. and on render, you have to process/calculate something. if this is time consuming, you can defer a pre-calculation for all entries in the next/previous pages of the current page the user is viewing (and save them in cache). this way, when user clicks prev/next button, the page will load instantly (and the next/prev one starts processing in background and so on).

[@LucianoTonet]

Using Cursor? 👀

[@RaduStancaOnline]

Hold on a second, this looks like VS Code... 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@CHSKnight]

I believe it is.

[@homamal289]

Lol jeffery is dictionary like so much info in 13:59 amazing hope you give us an advanced laravel project like 30 day series

[@samhk2222]

Wait a minute, what's that dump extension @ 1:07 ?

[@tammyalemu]

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