Many times you face an issue that any changes to the Laravel application are not reflecting on web interfaces. This occurred due to the application is being served by the cache. This tutorial will help you to clear cache in the Laravel application.
Clear Cache in Laravel (Terminal)
Log in to the system running you Laravel application and open a terminal. Then navigate to your Laravel application code. Here you can issue the commands to clear cache as followings:
1. Clear Application Cache
Run the following command to clear application cache of the Laravel application.
php artisan cache:clear
2. Clear route cache
To clear route cache of your Laravel application execute the following command from the shell.
php artisan route:cache
3. Clear config cache
You can use config:cache to clear the config cache of the Laravel application.
php artisan config:cache
4. Clear compiled view files
Also, you may need to clear compiled view files of your Laravel application. To clear compiled view files run the following command from the terminal.
php artisan view:clear
Clear Cache in Laravel (Browser)
Most of the shared hosting providers don’t provide SSH access to the systems. In that case, you can clear Laravel cache by calling URL in the browser. You can simply place the below code in your routes/web.php file of Laravel application. Then access this URL in the browser to clear the cache of Laravel application.
1 2 3 4 | Route::get('/clear-cache', function() { Artisan::call('cache:clear'); return "Cache is cleared"; }); |
Laravel provides an expressive, unified API for various caching backends. Also, Laravel is configured to use the file cache driver, which stores the serialized, cached objects in the filesystem. I would like to add that the above-listed steps to clear cache are easy to follow and important too for Laravel Application Development.