So in my API there are a few places where it is running a process / report that is either hitting a timeout or simply just taking WAY too long. I'd like to defer these jobs off to a queue and instead return a key in my response. The front end would then ping a service using that key to determine the status of its particular job in the queue. This way we don't have hanging ajax calls for 2 - 3 minutes. Maybe I could even create a queue viewer that would allow you to review the jobs in it and even cancel some etc.
Does Laravel have something built in or is there a package for this already? Are there other better options for dealing with this kind of issue?
I don't believe this existed when I first posted this quesiton. However, Laravel now has this built for it: https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/horizon which is everything I was looking for.