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Prerequisites

First, follow the regular steps in our quick start guide to begin. Laravel Forge offers built-in support for Nightwatch. Get setup in minutes:
  1. Navigate to the Overview tab for a site that has laravel/nightwatch installed.
  2. Click Connect Nightwatch.
  3. Add your environment token.
  4. Click Monitor with Nightwatch.
  5. Optionally configure logging.
Nightwatch environment token

Add your Nightwatch environment token and click 'Monitor with Nightwatch'

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Manual integration

To ensure the agent runs as a continual process on your Forge server, we strongly recommend running the Nightwatch agent as a background process.

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Steps

  1. Navigate to the Environment section of the Settings tab for a site that has laravel/nightwatch installed.
  2. Add your environment’s NIGHTWATCH_TOKEN and press Save.
  3. Navigate to the Processes tab for the site.
  4. Click Add background process and select the Custom tab.
  5. Add the nightwatch:agent artisan command (see below example).
  6. Optionally configure logging.

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Example daemon configuration

SettingValue
NameNightwatch
Commandphp artisan nightwatch:agent
Working directory/home/forge/example.com (your site path)
Processes1
Graceful shutdown15
Nightwatch background process configuration

Configure the Nightwatch background process