Run Laravel Horizon locally to monitor your queued jobs on the server using SSH port forwarding.

I've found it useful in cases where I don't want to publish assets and create web routes for an API-only application.

If you don't use an SSH configuration files, google "SSH config file". For example, your ~/.ssh/config may have the following entry:

Host staging-2
    Hostname 10.10.10.10
    User ec2-user
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
    IdentityFile "/Users/johndoe/.ssh/id_rsa"

1. Clone this repository.

git clone git@github.com:koomai/laravel-horizon-local.git

2. Install dependencies and publish Horizon assets.

composer install
php artisan horizon:install

3. Add local and remote ports to your Redis instance in your .env file (if different from the defaults below):

REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PORT=6380

REMOTE_REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REMOTE_REDIS_PORT=6379

4. Run the artisan command below to start the SSH tunnel to your remote server as defined in your configuration file, e.g. staging-2

php artisan ssh:tunnel staging-2

5. Run php artisan serve (or see Laravel Valet if you're using MacOS).

6. Go to <your url>/horizon on your browser to view your remote queued jobs.