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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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