Laravel - AppServiceProvider is not called

Question

I tried to bind some services in the Laravel AppServiceProvider, but the services weren't bound. I think, that the AppServiceProvider was not even called. Actually, I made a new one and it works.

So my question is, am I doing something wrong? Or was the AppServiceProvider not called?

Answer 1

Laravel pre-compiles certain classes that are used on basically every request. This serves the purpose of performance optimization. Files to compile can be specified in config/compile.php under files. The default one looks like this:

'files' => [
    realpath(__DIR__.'/../app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php'),
    realpath(__DIR__.'/../app/Providers/BusServiceProvider.php'),
    realpath(__DIR__.'/../app/Providers/ConfigServiceProvider.php'),
    realpath(__DIR__.'/../app/Providers/EventServiceProvider.php'),
    realpath(__DIR__.'/../app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php'),
],

When running php artisan optimize when debugging is not enabled (or with the --force option) Those listed files and other framework classes will be written to storage/framework/compiled.php.

That means if you change one of those precompiled files, changes won't be applied immediately (if compiled.php exists) but only after you run php artisan optimize again or after you run php artisan clear-compiled to clear the compiled.php file.

Of course you can also remove the AppServiceProvider from the list as an alternative solution.