Process Facade Coming to Laravel 10

Laravel 10, due out next week, will introduce a Process layer for Laravel. Like the HTTP facade makes working with APIs a cinch, the Process service will make working with, testing, and running CLI processes a dream to work with. You can see the basic usage of this feature in the following example from Pull Request #45314 by Taylor Otwell:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Process;
 
$result = Process::run('ls -la');
 
$result->successful();
$result->failed();
$result->exitCode();
$result->output();
$result->errorOutput();
$result->throw();
$result->throwIf($condition);

The Process layer includes rich features out of the box, such as:

• Fluent process methods to build a process instance before running it
• Process output handling as it is received
• Asynchronous processes
• Process Pools
• Rich testing features via fake()
• Preventing stray processes during tests

Testing processes has never been easier, and I am excited for the code API around testing processes that you run in your applications:

Process::fake([
    'ls *' => Process::result('Hello World'),
]);
 
$result = Process::run('ls -la');
 
Process::assertRan(function ($process, $result) {
    return $process->command == 'ls -la';
});
 
Process::assertRanTimes(function ($process, $result) {
    return $process->command == 'ls -la';
}, times: 1);
 
Process::assertNotRan(function ($process, $result) {
    return $process->command == 'cat foo';
});

Check out Pull Request #45314 for implementation details and plenty of examples. This feature will surely be documented with the release of Laravel 10. A hat tip to Nuno Maduro and Taylor Otwell for adding Process to Laravel 10, it looks amazing!