Laravel | Artisan Commands to know in Laravel

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Artisan is a command-line interface that Laravel provides which helps in making the production process fast and easy. Laravel has its own Command Line interface called Artisan. Its like a Linux command line but the commands are helpful for building a Laravel application. With this command-line tool, we can make models, controllers, and can do data migrations and many more. First, we will have to change the directory in your command line console (i.e. cmd on windows or terminal on Linux/Mac) or any other CLI software, to the directory of your Laravel app.

For Controller: The following command will create a controller:
```
php artisan make:controller ArticleController
```
Output:

Command below is to create a controller and a model together:
```
php artisan make:controller ArticleController -m Article
```
Output:
For Eloquent Model: The following command will create a eloquent model:
```
php artisan make:model Article
```
Output:
For Front-end Scaffolding: The following command will create a front-end scaffolding for the for Bootstrap:
```
php artisan ui bootstrap
```
Output:

The following command will create a front-end scaffolding for the for Vue:
```
php artisan ui vue
```
Output:

The following command will create a front-end scaffolding for the for React:
```
php artisan ui react
```
Output:

To remove the scaffolding, use the below command:
```
php artisan preset none
```
Output:

Note: You will need to run ‘composer require laravel/ui –dev’ for installing ‘laravel/ui’ package before using the above command.
For Authentication Configuration: The following command will create a full authentication system:
```
php artisan ui vue --auth
```
Output:
For Migration: The following command will create a migration:
```
php artisan make:migration create_articles_table
```
Output:

To do database migration for all the tables, run the command below:
```
php artisan migrate
```
Output:
For Route: The following command will display list of all the routes:
```
php artisan route:list
```
Output:
For Tinker: The following command will start tinker:
```
php artisan tinker
```
Output:
For Starting Development Server: The following command will start the Laravel development server and provide a URL to visit the running Laravel application:
```
php artisan serve
```
Output:
For Maintenance Mode: The following command can be used to take the Laravel application in or out of the Maintenance Mode:

In Maintenance:
```
php artisan down
```
Output:

Out of Maintenance:
```
php artisan up
```
Output:
For Listing Commands: The following command will display a list of all the command that are available:
```
php artisan list
```
Output:

You can also write juts ‘php artisan’ without ‘list’ and will work the same and list out all the artisan commands.