sql error when seeding Specified key was too long for email

Question

Hi I just started a new project in laravel so it's the latest version 5.4, I'm getting an error when seeding to the database for a single user and I'm getting this error

[Illuminate\Database\QueryException] SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was t oo long; max key length is 1000 bytes (SQL: alter table users add unique users_email_unique(email))

[PDOException] SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was t oo long; max key length is 1000 bytes

User::create([
    'name' => 'someone'
    'email' => '[e-mail]',
    'password' => bcrypt('mypassword'), 
]);


<?php

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

class CreateUsersTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('name');
            $table->string('email')->unique();
            $table->string('password');
            $table->rememberToken();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

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

Answer 1

You should try this like:

use  Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema; // At the top of your file

And add this line in the boot() method of the AppServiceProvider :

Schema::defaultStringLength(191);