Running and rolling back migrations in Laravel - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Running and Rolling Back Migrations in Laravel

📖 Scenario: You are building a Laravel application that needs a database table to store information about books. You will create a migration to add the books table, run the migration to create the table in the database, and then learn how to roll back the migration if needed.

🎯 Goal: Create a migration file for the books table, run the migration to apply it to the database, and then roll back the migration to remove the table.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a migration file named create_books_table

Run the migration using the correct Artisan command

Roll back the last migration using the correct Artisan command

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Managing database changes safely and efficiently is essential in real-world Laravel projects to keep the database schema in sync with application code.

💼 Career

Understanding migrations and how to run or roll them back is a fundamental skill for Laravel developers working on team projects or maintaining production applications.

1

Create the migration file

Use the Artisan command php artisan make:migration create_books_table to create a migration file named create_books_table.

Laravel

# Run the Artisan command to create the migration file
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Open your terminal and type the exact command to create a migration file named create_books_table.

2

Run the migration to create the table

Run the Artisan command php artisan migrate to apply all pending migrations, including the create_books_table migration.

Laravel

php artisan make:migration create_books_table
# Run the Artisan command to migrate the database
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the command that applies all migrations to the database.

3

Roll back the last migration

Use the Artisan command php artisan migrate:rollback to undo the last batch of migrations, which will remove the books table.

Laravel

php artisan make:migration create_books_table
php artisan migrate
# Run the Artisan command to roll back the last migration
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the command that rolls back the last migration batch.

4

Confirm migration rollback

Check the database or use the Artisan command php artisan migrate:status to confirm that the books table migration has been rolled back.

Laravel

php artisan make:migration create_books_table
php artisan migrate
php artisan migrate:rollback
# Run the Artisan command to check migration status
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the command that shows the status of all migrations to verify rollback.