Artisan

Laravel Craftsman CLI

Laravel Craftsman is a CLI for easily crafting Laravel assets for any project (artisan make on steroids) by Mike Erickson.

Laravel Console Task

Laravel Console Task is a package by Nuno Maduro that allows you to perform tasks and to output the results to the console. Learn how this package can improve the output of your console tasks performed while running a command.

Testing Artisan Commands in Laravel 5.7

Laravel 5.7 is going to improve how you write Artisan console commands, with a new API contributed by Laravel employee Mohamed Said. Check out the new testing API as well as links to the documentation!

Automatically Open Files on Artisan “Make” Commands

“Open on Make” is a neat little package by Andrew Huggins that makes it easy to have newly created files open in your editor of choice. When you run commands like ‘php artisan make:controller’, this package will listen for the command and open the file in the editor that you configure.

Sending a daily email with Laravel and Campaign Monitor

Here on Laravel News, we offer multiple ways of staying up to date with new content. Everything from auto-sharing to all the social media channels, a read-only Telegram channel, a weekly newsletter and last March we started offering a daily email digest. To send the daily email we utilize the Laravel scheduler and Campaign Monitor …

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Laravel Zero 5.6 is Now Released

Laravel Zero is a micro-framework for console/command-line applications that uses a customized version of Laravel. This 5.6 release features UI Improvements, Collision Syntax Highlighting, Git Version detection and more. Laravel Zero 5.6 is built on top of Laravel 5.6, the latest release of the Laravel framework. And now it requires PHP 7.1.3 or higher.

Beautiful PHP CLI Menus for Laravel Artisan Commands

Nuno Maduro, author of Laravel Zero and Collision (which ships with Laravel 5.6 as a dev dependency) is up to his command line dominance with a new package called nunomaduro/laravel-console-menu. Learn more about how this package makes it simple to start adding beautiful menus to your Laravel Artisan commands.

Laravel 5.6 Will Remove the Artisan Optimize Command

The Artisan optimize command is deprecated as of Laravel 5.5, and a commit in master has already removed it from 5.6. Learn more about why the optimize command was removed and what you need to do in order to remove it from your applications.

Laravel Bash Aliases

Bash aliases are shortcuts added to a file that allows you to reference another command through more memorable words, abbreviations, or characters. Everyone has their favorites and we asked the community to supply theirs so you can see what aliases others are using.

Writing Custom Laravel Artisan Commands

Learn how you can create some kick-butt custom commands for your Laravel applications using the artisan console.

Laravel’s Artisan command line interface (CLI) extends Symfony’s Console component, with some added conveniences and shortcuts. Follow along if you want to learn how to create some kick-butt custom commands for your Laravel applications.