5 Laravel Artisan commands I use every single day

5 Laravel Artisan commands I use every single day

If you're a Laravel dev, these five are probably burned into your terminal history too:

1. php artisan make:model Post -mfsc
   Model + migration + factory + seeder + controller, one command. No more typing five separate make: commands like it's 2015.

2. php artisan tinker
   Need to test a query or poke at a relationship real quick? Tinker over spinning up a whole route, every time.

3. php artisan route:list --path=api
   Debugging a 404 or checking if middleware actually applied? This shows you instantly, no guessing.

4. php artisan queue:work --tries=3
   Can't run jobs without this. That --tries flag has saved me from silently-failed jobs more than once.

5. php artisan optimize:clear
   Something "just not updating"? Config, cache, routes, views? This is step zero before real debugging even starts.

Drop your most-used Artisan command below — curious what I'm missing 👇

Comments

[Raknaos]

make:model -mfsc is the one I'd put first too — the failure mode without it is a half-scaffolded model that passes review and then breaks on the first seeder run. For tinker, I get more mileage out of a small non-interactive snippet than the shell when I'm testing one relationship, because it's reproducible and I can paste it into an issue.

One I'd add: php artisan db:show --counts when you inherit a database nobody documented. It tells you which tables are actually populated before you write a query against an empty one. Do you keep a project-specific Artisan command in your repos, or is needing one a sign the codebase has outgrown the framework defaults?

[Sandra Sakura]

Good addition — db:show --counts is a nice one, especially for that "inherited chaos" scenario where you don't want to trust the schema without checking what's actually populated.