Laravel Cheatsheet - Laravel Artisan Command Reference

This reference is for developers building Laravel applications and the people deploying them, centering on Artisan, the CLI you run constantly. It covers scaffolding a project, generating models/controllers/migrations, running and rolling back migrations, boosting production with route/config/view caching, and handling background work with the queue. Unlike a generic Artisan command dump, entries are grouped by the workflow you actually repeat: create feature → migrate DB → run locally → cache for prod → queue the heavy work. After reading, you should be able to scaffold a CRUD feature, apply and roll back migrations cleanly, and be confident about what each cache command commits or clears.

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Project & Dev 10

laravel new project

Create a new project

php artisan serve

Start the dev server

php artisan make:model Post -mcr

Make model+migration+controller

php artisan make:migration create_posts_table

Create a migration

php artisan make:controller PostController

Create a controller

php artisan make:middleware CheckAge

Create middleware

php artisan make:request StorePostRequest

Create a form request

php artisan make:job ProcessPodcast

Create a queue job

php artisan make:event PodcastProcessed

Create an event

php artisan make:listener SendNotification

Create a listener

Database 8

php artisan migrate

Run migrations

php artisan migrate:fresh

Fresh: drop all and re-migrate

php artisan migrate:rollback

Rollback last migration

php artisan migrate:status

View migration status

php artisan db:seed

Run seeders

php artisan db:seed --class=UserSeeder

Run a specific seeder

php artisan make:seeder UserSeeder

Create a seeder

php artisan make:factory PostFactory

Create a factory

Routes & Cache 9

php artisan route:list

List all routes

php artisan route:cache

Cache routes (prod)

php artisan route:clear

Clear route cache

php artisan config:cache

Cache config

php artisan config:clear

Clear config cache

php artisan view:cache

Cache views

php artisan view:clear

Clear view cache

php artisan optimize

Optimize (config + routes)

php artisan optimize:clear

Clear all caches

Queues & Jobs 7

php artisan queue:work

Start the queue worker

php artisan queue:work --queue=high,default

Set queue priority

php artisan queue:restart

Restart all workers

php artisan queue:failed

List failed jobs

php artisan queue:retry <id>

Retry a failed job

php artisan queue:flush

Flush all failed jobs

php artisan make:job ProcessPodcast

Create a job class

Testing & Debug 6

php artisan test

Run tests

php artisan test --filter=UserTest

Run a specific test

php artisan tinker

Enter the REPL (tinker)

php artisan down

Enter maintenance mode

php artisan up

Exit maintenance mode

php artisan storage:link

Link the storage dir

Tips

In production always run php artisan optimize to cache config and routes.
make:model -mcr generates model+migration+resource controller at once.
Run queue workers under Supervisor to avoid unexpected exits.

Official References

Each command links to its official documentation below, so you can verify the latest usage and read deeper.

Official Docs

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Publicly updated on Jul 21, 2026, continuously proofread against official docs.

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