How to Automate Tasks with Custom Laravel Artisan Commands

This tutorial walks through custom Laravel Artisan commands by building a data operations toolkit for a logistics platform: an order archiver, a summary report generator, and a nightly dispatcher. It covers php artisan make:command, the $signature property with required arguments and options, the handle() method, output helpers info() error() and table(), progress bars for long-running operations, calling commands from commands with Artisan::call(), and scheduling in app/Console/Kernel.php