Artisan Commands

Artisan is Laravel's CLI tool. Below are the most commonly used commands for the CPR backend.

Development

Command	Description
php artisan serve	Start the development server
php artisan tinker	Interactive REPL for testing code
php artisan route:list	List all registered routes
php artisan route:list --path=api/v1	List API v1 routes only

Database

Command	Description
php artisan migrate	Run pending migrations
php artisan migrate:fresh --seed	Drop all tables, re-migrate, and seed
php artisan migrate:rollback	Rollback last migration batch
php artisan migrate:status	Check migration status
php artisan db:seed	Run all seeders
php artisan db:seed --class=RoleSeeder	Run a specific seeder

Code Generation

Command	Description
php artisan make:model ModelName -m	Create model with migration
php artisan make:controller Api/V1/ExampleController	Create API controller
php artisan make:request StoreExampleRequest	Create Form Request
php artisan make:resource ExampleResource	Create API Resource
php artisan make:factory ExampleFactory	Create model factory
php artisan make:seeder ExampleSeeder	Create seeder
php artisan make:migration create_examples_table	Create migration
php artisan make:test Feature/Api/V1/ExampleTest	Create test file

Cache & Optimization

Command	Description
php artisan config:cache	Cache configuration (production)
php artisan config:clear	Clear config cache (development)
php artisan route:cache	Cache routes (production)
php artisan route:clear	Clear route cache
php artisan view:cache	Cache Blade views
php artisan view:clear	Clear view cache
php artisan optimize	Run all optimization commands
php artisan optimize:clear	Clear all caches

Queue

Command	Description
php artisan queue:work	Start processing queued jobs
php artisan queue:listen	Listen for jobs (restarts on code change)
php artisan queue:retry all	Retry all failed jobs
php artisan queue:flush	Flush all failed jobs

Logging & Debugging

Command	Description
php artisan pail	Real-time log tailing
php artisan pail --filter="error"	Filter logs by level

Testing

Command	Description
php artisan test	Run all tests
php artisan test --parallel --processes=10	Run tests in parallel
php artisan test --filter=PatientTest	Run specific test

Useful Tips

List All Available Commands

php artisan list

Get Help for a Command

php artisan help migrate

Using with Sail (Docker)

When using Docker via Laravel Sail, prefix all commands:

./vendor/bin/sail artisan migrate
./vendor/bin/sail artisan db:seed
./vendor/bin/sail artisan test