Recently I've found out a nice little way to speed up generating of database stuff - I used to use make:migration and make:model Artisan commands separately. Apparently, they can be combined into one.
So if you run a command like this:
artisan make:model Books -m
It will create a migration file automatically for you. The magic is in -m parameter.
The whole thing looks like this:
artisan make:model Books -m
Model created successfully.
Created Migration: 2015_10_19_012129_create_books_table
And the result is that we have two files generated:
app/Books.php:
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Books extends Model
{
//
}
And database/migrations/2015_10_19_012129_create_books_table.php:
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class CreateBooksTable extends Migration
{
/**
* Run the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function up()
{
Schema::create('books', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
/**
* Reverse the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function down()
{
Schema::drop('books');
}
}
Notice that migration file comes with automatically suggested auto_increment field and timestamps. Isn't that sweet of Laravel? Constantly saving our time, second by second.
