Full-Stack Vue.js 2 and Laravel 5

Execution

Now that we've set up our new migration, let's run it with this Artisan command:

$ php artisan migrate

You should see an output like this in the Terminal:

Migrating: 2017_06_20_133317_create_listings_table
Migrated:  2017_06_20_133317_create_listings_table

To confirm the migration worked, let's use Tinker to show the new table structure. If you've never used Tinker, it's a REPL tool that allows you to interact with a Laravel app on the command line. When you enter a command into Tinker it will be evaluated as if it were a line in your app code.

Firstly, open the Tinker shell:

$ php artisan tinker

Now enter a PHP statement for evaluation. Let's use the DB facade's select method to run an SQL DESCRIBE query to show the table structure: ...