When is it safe to roll back a migration?

Down migrations are oddly controversial in the Laravel community. Some developers go so far as to update the migration stubs to not even include the down() method at all

In today's video, I'm not going to engage in the debate, but I will walk through a simple migration scenario and explain a rule of thumb we follow for when it makes sense to roll back a migration in production.

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Joel

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