Can Artisan partially boot? Here's a scenario that still hangs (all commands) 👉🏼

[emjayess]

Artisan is unable to config:clear if the database previously configured is unreachable, and a replacement database is added to the .env file (the very reason for invoking config:clear); instead, the command simply hangs indefinitely.

Even a basic php artisan --version gets hung up in the event of an unreachable database.

I'm not very familiar with the internal architecture of Artisan, and without digging I might presume, given the behavior observed here, that it is an all-or-nothing application boot sequence. And this seems unfortunate, for at least the scenario I've just described. I'd think there are a good number of artisan commands that do not really need the application (and database connection) to be fully booted.