Laravel 4 now leverages the excellent Symfony Console component to manage its command-line interface, Artisan. You can even write your own commands to fill in any missing functionality that you’d like to make use of. Perhaps the best part, though, is that it’s really quite simple to use! In this course, we’ll work through every step of the process – from writing your first “hello world” command, all the way up to using the workbench to share your commands with the world.