Migrations and database seed

Now, let's exercise some commands that we briefly saw in the first chapter and create our migrations and seeds in a different way.

1. Open your Terminal window on the chapter-04 folder and type the following command:

docker-compose exec php-fpm bash

2. Inside the container root bash, type the following command:

php artisan make:model Bike -m

Note that we are using the -m flag to create the migration file together with the creation of Bike Model. So now, we have two new files in our application:

• project/app/Bike.php
• project/database/migrations/XXXX_XX_XX_XXXXXX_create_bikes_table.php

Creating the migration boilerplate

As we saw previously, the new files only have the boilerplate code that&apos...