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Artisan CLI

3:31 with Jonathan Barrios

Artisan CLI is the command-line interface is included with Laravel, and it provides useful commands for everyday development tasks, from building controllers to database migrations using Tinker. Tinker is a handy CLI tool that takes in a single user input, evaluates it, and returns the result to the user, also known as REPL, which is short for read-eval-print-loop. Tinker is an excellent tool for database development in general, and we’ll use it when we migrate and seed our database.

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    Welcome back. 0:00
    Now that we're getting the hang of routing, 0:01
    it's a good time to talk about Laravel's command line interface artisan. 0:04
    Artisan is included with Laravel and 0:09
    it provides useful commands for common development tasks from 0:11
    building controllers to database migrations using Tinker. 0:16
    Tinker is a handy CLI tool that takes in a single user input, 0:20
    evaluates it, and returns the result to the user. 0:25
    This tool is also known as REPL, which is short for read, evaluate, print, loop. 0:29
    Tinker is an excellent tool for database development in general, and 0:36
    we'll use it to migrate and seed our database. 0:41
    If you want to browse through a list of available commands at any time, 0:44
    use php artisan list. 0:50
    To get started, let's take a closer look at the essential artisan CLI commands. 0:52
    Artisan provides many helpful commands that speed up development, 0:58
    complete with a list of available artisan commands at your fingertips. 1:03
    Just type php artisan list to see the list at any time. 1:07
    Wow, that's a big list. 1:14
    But don't worry, in time you'll learn all of these commands one by one as you 1:16
    start developing more Laravel applications. 1:21
    You've already used php artisan migrate to test the database 1:24
    credentials you created earlier. 1:28
    So you're already on your way. 1:31
    If you want to see the essential information for 1:33
    any artisan command, use php artisan help, 1:36
    followed by the name of the command you want information on, such as migrate. 1:39
    Remember, if you wanna see a list of all of your routes and 1:49
    information like the URI, middleware, and 1:56
    more, use this command, php artisan route:list. 2:01
    In the next section, you'll use php artisan make colon controller 2:07
    to create a controller instead of writing it out by hand. 2:13
    If you want to build a model and you forgot what arguments or 2:17
    option it takes, just remember to use the artists help command like this. 2:22
    Maybe you forgot the command to make a controller. 2:28
    No worries, try this one instead. 2:31
    When you want to look inside of your database, perform database migrations, 2:35
    or if you're going to seed your database, use this command, php artisan tinker. 2:40
    This is the tinker shell. 2:48
    To exit the shell use Ctrl + C. 2:50
    Last but not least, 2:50
    when you need inspiration, 2:54
    use this command, php artisan inspire. 2:58
    How cool is that? 3:06
    As you can see, Laravel provides a cornucopia of robust tools that speed 3:09
    up the modern web development process. 3:13
    It's not hard to see why Laravel is the preferred PHP framework in 2020. 3:16
    Now that we've covered artisan and some of the commands it makes available to us, 3:21
    let's create our first controller in the next section. 3:26
    See you there. 3:30

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