How does Laravel's migration up and down method work?

Question

In this code the table is created in the up method and deleted in the down() method. When I run the migration, the table is created but not deleted. In what way can I trigger the down method, so that I get a better understanding on how the two methods work?

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;

class CreateFlightsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('flights', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('name');
            $table->string('airline');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::drop('flights');
    }
}

Answer 1

In your example:

php artisan migrate will run your up() method.

php artisan migrate:rollback will run your down() method.

Read up on the excellent docs: https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/migrations#migration-structure