Debugging and profiling your app

If we want to know how our application is working behind the scenes, we'll need to profile it. This recipe will show how to add in a profiler to our Laravel app.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we'll need a working copy of Laravel with a MySQL database properly configured.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow the given steps:

1. Open up the command line window and use the artisan command to create our migrations as given in the following code:

     php artisan migrate::make create_spaceships_table –create –table="spaceships"
   

2. In the app/database/migrations folder, open the file whose name begins with the date and ends with create_spaceships_table.php, and use this for our database table

   <?php
   
     use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
     use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
   
   class CreateSpaceshipsTable extends Migration {
   
     /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
   public function up()
   {
     Schema::create('spaceships', function(Blueprint...