Artisan is a utility that can help you do specific repetitive tasks with bash commands. It covers many tasks, including: working with database migrations and seeding, clearing cache, creating necessary files for Authentication setup, making new controllers, models, event classes, and a lot more.

Artisan is the name of the command-line interface included with Laravel. It provides a number of helpful commands for your use while developing your application.

To view a list of all available Artisan commands, you may use the list command:

php artisan list

To know more about the any available command, just precede its name with help keyword:

php artisan help [command-name]

php artisan route:list --method=GET --method=POST

This will include all routes that accept GET and POST methods simultaneously.

You can also use Laravel Artisan commands from your routes or controllers.

To run a command using PHP code:

Artisan::call('command-name');

For example,

Artisan::call('db:seed');

You can create new commands via

php artisan make:command [commandName]

So this will create [commandName] command class inside app/Console/Commands directory.

inside this class you will find protected $signature and protected $description variables, it represents name and discription of your command which will be used to describe your command.

after creating command you can register your command inside app/Console/Kernel.php class where you will find commands property.

so you can add your command inside the $command array like :

protected $commands = [
    Commands\[commandName]::class
];

and then i can use my command via console.

so as example i have named my command like

protected $signature = 'test:command';

So whenever i will run

php artisan test:command

it will call the handle method inside the class having signature test:command.