Laravel 9 Telescope Integration Tutorial

What is a laravel telescope?

In simple term laravel telescope is a debugger inside the laravel application every incoming and outgoing request will notice and listed, this is used for developing purposes or sometimes for production mode also, it is helpful to the developer for the local environment while they working, or when the application in developing mode.

What is the laravel telescope used for?

Laravel telescope provides insight into application incoming requests, database queries, queue job, email sending, notification, cache, exception, server error, syntax, dump data in this all the activity wondering and noticed all time.

Now we will see how to integrate the telescope in our application with the help of composer, we will install "laravel/telescope" composer in the laravel app for getting get libraries.

Step 1. Install Composer

composer require laravel/telescope

After installing telescope composer, we will publish its asset files using the "telescope: install" command, after that you should run migrate command to create a migration table for the store telescope data in the database, to get record history.

php artisan telescope:install

php artisan migrate

After installing the telescope artisan command, if you got going to the telescope default migration file, we should call the "Telescope::ignoreMigrations" method in the register method in the application App\Providers\AppServiceProvider class, you may still expose the migration telescope table using the below command :

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=telescope-migrations

Step 2. Local Installation Only(Optional)

If you wish to use it only for local development purposes only, follow this step, This installs only for locally development environment purposes only.

composer require laravel/telescope --dev
    
php artisan telescope:install
    
php artisan migrate

Step 3. Configuration

After the published assets file and migration are successfully in the database, we will add a "TELESCOPE_ENABLED" property in the .env file. you may disable data collection using a telescope in the application locally or production using enable configuration option.

TELESCOPE_ENABLED=true

the configuration file will be located in the "config/telescope.php". this configuration file allows you to config the watcher option. change configuration as per your requirement.

'enabled' => env('TELESCOPE_ENABLED', true),

Step 4. Start & Check

Start your development server using the below command :

php artisan server

Run the below localhost URL in your browser and test

http://127.0.0.1:8000/telescope

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