The Artisan Command Line Environment (CLI) is a terminal based application that can be used to ease development with Laravel. Artisan ships with many commands by default as well as exposes APIs to create your own custom commands.

Many of the commands available are commands to either generate database tables, manage existing tables or clear various application caches. The commands are organized by command namespaces; for example, the clear command under the view namespace would clear the previously cached views and is written as view:clear.

#Database Management Commands

This section will provide a reference for the commands that are used to create and manage database tables. Each command will be discussed in greater detail in later sections.

Command	Signature	Description
migrate	--database --force --path --pretend --seed --step	Runs the database migrations.
migrate:install	--database	Creates the migrations table.
migrate:refresh	--database --force --path --seed --seeder	Resets and run all migrations again.
migrate:reset	--database --force --pretend	Rollback all database migrations.
migrate:rollback	--database --force --pretend	Rollback the last database migration.
migrate:status	--database --path	Show the status of each migration.
cache:table		Creates a migration for the cache table.
queue:table		Creates a migration for the queue jobs table.
session:table		Creates a migration for the sessions table.

#Cache Management Commands

This section will provide a reference for the commands that are used to generate or clear various caches used by your application. Each command will be discussed in greater detail in later sections.

Command	Description
cache:clear	Flushes the application cache.
config:cache	Creates a cache file to improve configuration performance.
config:clear	Removes the configuration cache file.
route:cache	Create a cache file to improve router performance.
route:clear	Remove the route cache file.
view:clear	Clear all compiled view files.

#Default Artisan Commands

The following sections will discuss each of the default Artisan commands.

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