Artisan cheatsheet

Puts your application in maintenance mode and returns a 503 holding page.

#artisan#php 
php artisan down
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Turns off the maintenance mode and puts your application back online.

#artisan#php 
php artisan up
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This command will cache configuration file to improve application performance.

#artisan#php#cache 
php artisan config:cache
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Flush the application cache.

#artisan#php#cache 
php artisan cache:clear
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Clears configuration file cache.

#artisan#php#cache 
php artisan config:clear
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Count method returns a number of records in the queried object.

#artisan#php 
App\Users::count();
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Seeds the database with records.

#artisan#php#db 
php artisan db:seed
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Show the information about a command.

#artisan#php 
php artisan help [command]
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Check version of the installed Laravel instance.

#artisan#php 
php artisan --version
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Print a full list of Artisan commands with descriptions.

#artisan#php 
php artisan
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This artisan command will list all routes registered in your application.

#artisan#php#route 
php artisan route:list
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Puts the application into maintenance mode.

#artisan#php 
php artisan down
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Depending on Laravel version installed you can add auth functionality to your app using the following commands. Make sure you have a database configured and connected for this step as it will be needed to create a user table.

#artisan#php#make#auth 
// Laravel version < 6
php artisan make:auth

// Laravel verions >= 6
composer require laravel/ui
php artisan ui vue --auth
php artisan migrate
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Creates a new Controller class. Naming convention - use a plural form of the element i.e. "Items" followed by the "Controller".

#artisan#php#make#controller 
php artisan make:controller ItemsController
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Creates a new Controller class. "-r" flag creates all default route actions in the new Controller - index, show, create, store, edit, update and destroy. "-m" flag will create the Model file too.

#artisan#php#make#controller 
php artisan make:controller ItemsController -r -m
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Creates a new Event class.

#artisan#php#make#event 
php artisan make:event ItemWasAdded
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Creates a new Factory class for a specified Model.

#artisan#php#make#factory 
php artisan make:factory ItemFactory -m Item
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Creates a new Listener class. The --event flag, or -e in short, will include the event to listen for.

#artisan#php#make#listener 
php artisan make:event SendItemAddedNotification --event=ItemAdded
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Creates a new Mail class. The --markdown flag, or -m in short, will also create a Markdown template for the new email.

#artisan#php#make#mail 
php artisan make:mail ItemConfirmation --markdown="emails.item-confirmation"
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Creates a new migration class.

#artisan#php#make#migration 
php artisan make:migration create_items_table
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Creates a new Notification class.

#artisan#php#make#notification 
php artisan make:notification UserEmailUpdated
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Creates a new Seeder class for a specified table.

#artisan#php#make#seeder 
php artisan make:seeder ItemsTableSeeder
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Runs all database migrations.

#artisan#php#migration 
php artisan migrate
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Runs a clean database migration. WARNING! This command will wipe the database clean and rebuild all tables from scratch so it should never be run in the production application!

#artisan#php#migration 
php artisan migrate:fresh
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Revert migration one step. By appending a --step=x flag you can define the number of steps to rollback.

#artisan#php#migration 
php artisan migrate:rollback
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Serve command runs the development server for your Laravel project.

#artisan#php 
php artisan serve
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Tinker allows you to interact with the Laravel project directly from the command line interface.

#artisan#php#tinker 
php artisan tinker
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Puts the application into active mode.

#artisan#php 
php artisan up
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