Tinker is a command-line application that allows you to interact with your Laravel application, including the Eloquent ORM, jobs, events, and more. To get access to the Tinker console, run the artisan tinker command that we previously used to check the database connection in Chapter 01, Understanding the Core Concepts of Laravel 5.
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Open your Terminal window and type the following command:
php artisan tinker
Since we have not created any controllers or routes for our application yet, it's impossible to check our data using the browser to access the API endpoints.
However, using Tinker, it is possible to interact with our database and check whether everything went well with our migration files and database ...
