trying to understand why I should use this over Laravel's built-in scheduler about cron HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi,

Cron was developed when there was no job scheduling for Laravel. With Laravel 5 there are basic scheduling functionalities and under the hood we are using the same PHP libraries such as cron-expression. But Cron delivers some additional functions like the monitoring, the in time check or the integrated route. If you don't need this features, I wouldn't use Cron. By using external dependencies, your application dependent on the support of developers like me. I make mistakes (like bugs) and maybe sometime I won't support Cron anymore. And using external dependencies expands your application. And if the functionality is already build in Laravel, I would use this.

I hope this helps.

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