When deploying a Laravel application always make sure that you are caching and optimizing during your deployment to ensure your application runs as fast and efficiently as possible.
Here are commands that I add as part of every deployment
Laravel Optimization
Optimize will cache Laravel’s bootstrap files, while the other two commands will cache events, listeners and compile Blade templates.
php artisan event:cache
php artisan view:cache
php artisan optimize
// optimize: will execute the following two commands
// php artisan config:cache
// php artisan route:cache
Pro Tip: Different packages may have some additional cache optimizations, always check the documentation. As a quick lookup you can run this command to get a dump of commands dealing with cache.
php artisan | grep cache
Composer Optimization
For composer make sure to optimize your autoloader, more information can be found here.
composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
For automated deployments you can run
composer install --no-interaction --no-dev --no-ansi --no-plugins --no-progress --no-scripts --optimize-autoloader
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