Laravel 5 database migrate issue - Specified key was too long

Solution to the following error

//
 [Illuminate\Database\QueryException]
  SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes (S
  QL: 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 1000 bytes
//

To resolve the above issue

Open "app\Providers\AppServiceProvider.php"

Add the following code

//
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

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