Setting up users and running migrations

Here, we will take a look at users, model, and migration as well as some steps for running them on your machine and more.

Getting ready

The base install of Laravel should make setting up for this easy. Just make sure to update your .env file for the correct database name and then make sure to provision your Vagrant box and you are ready. Also, we will be running this work from within our Vagrant box since the migrations will talk to the database on the default port.

How to do it...

1. Set up your .env file to look like the following:
   
2. Laravel comes with user migration so this is the easy part. All you need to do is run:

   >php artisan migrate
   

   And that is it!

3. To rollback this work, you can type:

   >php artisan migrate:rollback
   

How it works...

Laravel 5.x made this super easy. You can see the migrations in the database/migration folder. You will see one in there to help with passwords as well. Don't want users? Just delete them. Many sites might not have...