Laravel commands and jobs

Question

I was wondering what the difference is between the different command-like classes in Laravel 5.1. As far as I can tell Laravel 5.1 has the following available:

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Answer 1

Just an addition to the actual answers.

Jobs in Laravel >= 5.1 are Commands Bus in Laravel 5.0.

It is only a naming change because of the confusion between Console\Commands (commands run from the console) and The Command Bus (containing Commands) for the Application Tasks.

You should not confound :

• Command Bus : used for "encapsulating tasks your application" (from laravel 5.0 doc) which is now renamed a Jobs
• Console\Commands : used for "Artisan [...] the command-line interface included with Laravel" (from laravel 5.1 docs) which is unchanged in Laravel since 4.x