Laravel artisan optimize Best Practices

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suncoastkid picture suncoastkid · Aug 8, 2015 · Viewed 40.3k times · Source

I'm trying to fully understand the Laravel (5.1) artisan optimize command and best practices, but the documentation seems lacking. I don't have Composer installed on the production server so, specifically, I want to know what files are modified or created when running artisan optimize --force on development that must get pushed to production. The goal being not to blow up the app in production! After running the command, I see the following files have been modified:

\bootstrap\cache\compiled.php
\vendor\composer\ - the entire directory
\vendor\autoload.php

Am I overthinking this, or do I just push these files to production and I'm good to go? Also, what is the best practice regarding when to run artisan optimize? Each time a new model is created? What about controllers, routes and helper classes?

Lastly, I see the \bootstrap\cache\compiled.php file is a whopping 548KB and almost 17K lines! Is that really considered optimal?

Answer

Ben Claar picture Ben Claar · Aug 9, 2015

[edit - As @crishoj says, as of Laravel 5.5, php artisan optimize is no longer needed]

Normal Laravel practice is to have composer installed on your production server.

These are the steps Envoyer (made by Laravel's creator) takes to deploy an app on production -- I've annotated them below:

# Install application dependencies, such as the Laravel framework itself.
#
# If you run composer update in development and commit the `composer.lock`
# file to your repository, then `composer install` will install the exact
# same versions in production.
composer install --no-interaction

# Clear the old boostrap/cache/compiled.php
php artisan clear-compiled

# Recreate boostrap/cache/compiled.php
php artisan optimize

# Migrate any database changes
php artisan migrate

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