Laravel 8 Specified key was too long error

Since Laravel 5.4, It made a change to the default database character set to uses utf8mb4 which includes support for storing emojis.

• If you are using MariaDB or older versions of MySQL you may face this error when trying to run migrations:

[Illuminate\Database\QueryException]
SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes (SQL: alter table users add unique users_email_unique(email))

[PDOException]
SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes

• In order to fix this problem, you have to make a change in your AppServiceProvider.php file and inside the boot method set a default string length:

 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema; # add on the top or after

  public function boot()
  {
	  Schema::defaultStringLength(191); 
  } 

• Everything should work as normal, please share this posts If it's helpful to you.