Queue notification laravel 5.3 issue

Question

Well im testing this new notification stuff implemented in laravel 5.3 and its great,

i have this notification class which sends a mail to the authenticated user (when he hits a specific route) which is the default code.

notification

namespace App\Notifications;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage;

class notifyme extends Notification  implements ShouldQueue
{
    use Queueable;

    public function __construct()
    {
        //
    }
    public function via($notifiable)
    {
        return ['mail'];
    }
    public function toMail($notifiable)
    {
        return (new MailMessage)
                    ->line('The introduction to the notification.')
                    ->action('Notification Action', 'https://laravel.com')
                    ->line('Thank you for using our application!');
    }

This is the controller functions that instantiates the notification class

public function notifyme()
    {
        $user = Auth::user()

        $user->notify(new notifyme($user));
        //$user->notify((new notifyme($user))->delay(Carbon::now()->addMinutes(10)));

         return redirect('/home');
    }

now while using a ubuntu os , and setting my queue driver as sync which should work fine on localhost QUEUE_DRIVER="sync"

i started a worker php artisan queue:work

But nothing shows on the terminal windows also page still a bit slow (queues are not working)

i have the default queue.php and i didnt change it, and as i mentioned, im using sync as a driver Any suggested solution?

Answer 1

sync driver doesn't use queues, it allows to run jobs synchronously for running tests for examle.

You need to use one of the driver provided by laravel listed here - Laravel queues , or install some custom like RabbitMQ or something else