The command line gives developers direct access to many of the tools used to build and maintain an application.

With Laravel, for example, developers can use Artisan, Laravel's command-line interface, to perform common development tasks.

Commands can be used to generate models, controllers, migrations, middleware, jobs, and other application components.

For example, a developer might generate a model and migration for blog posts rather than manually creating every file.

php artisan make:model Post -m

This can save time and, more importantly, encourages developers to follow a consistent application structure.