# Mastering Laravel Console Commands: Implementing a Progress Bar

By Dinesh Uprety
Published: 2024-04-09
Updated: 2024-04-09
Canonical: https://laranepal.com/blog/mastering-laravel-console-commands-implementing-a-progress-bar

# Progress Bar
A progress bar is a graphical user interface element used to visualize the progress of a task. It typically consists of a horizontal bar that gradually fills up as the task progresses, indicating the percentage of completion.
## withProgressBar()
![](https://laranepal.com/storage/CVyP5T3XbijpGnUV2GoAnAjiUWgeILMVUOBGsDRm.png)
```php
$this->withProgressBar(
            User::all(),
            function (User $user) {
                sleep(seconds: 1);
            }
        );
```
The `withProgressBar()` method is used to create a progress bar while iterating over a collection. In this case, it iterates over all users fetched from the database `(User::all())`.
Inside the closure function passed to `withProgressBar()`, each user is processed. Here, it seems to simulate some task with a `sleep()` function call to pause execution for 1 second.

## progress()
![](https://laranepal.com/storage/NZJWqKYsP7cH63jne9BTz1HQZWxXSXmJfYcWR14P.png)
```php
progress(
      label: 'Loading User',
      steps: User::all(),
      callback: function (User $user)
       {
          sleep(1);
       }
);
```
Another progress bar implementation utilizing the [`progress()`](https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/prompts#progress) function from Laravel [Prompts package](https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/prompts).
It takes three arguments:
* `label`: A string label indicating what the progress is for, in this case, 'Loading User'.
* `steps`: The steps to iterate over, here again all users are fetched using `User::all()`.
* `callback`: A closure function that gets executed for each step. Similar to `withProgressBar()`, it also simulates some processing with a `sleep()` function call.

## Concusion
In summary, this command demonstrates two different approaches to implementing progress bars in Laravel console commands. The `withProgressBar()` method is a built-in Laravel feature, while the `progress()` function originates from a third-party package, [Laravel Prompts](https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/prompts).