In big application, you often need to schedule periodic tasks using Cron jobs. But after some point, it becomes cumbersome to manage those cron jobs. Laravel Scheduler is a command line facility which allows you to easily manage and schedule tasks using cron jobs. There are various use-cases where you would need to schedule tasks like – scheduling backups, promotional emails, data fetching apis etc.

To setup Laravel Scheduler, you only need to setup single cron job in your server. Using that, Laravel scheduler will manager all your scheduled tasks fluently.

Let’s first understand what do you mean by Cron jobs.

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