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title: 'Laravel migrations have a very nice syntax for foreign keys'
tweet_id: '1308126491188883463'
thread_slug: 1-rt-1-tip
author_username: samuelstancl
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created_at: 2020-09-21T19:30:33+00:00
slug: laravel-migrations-have-a-very-nice-syntax-for-foreign-keys
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I didn't know about this for so long.

Instead of:
$table->unsignedBigInteger('user_id');
$table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users');

You do:
$table->foreignId('user_id')->constrained();