There are two common ways of determining if a table is empty in Laravel

There are two common ways of determining if a table is empty in Laravel. Calling exists() or count() directly on the model!

One returns a strict true/false boolean, the other returns an integer which you can use as a falsy in conditionals.

 1public function index()
 2{
 3    if (\App\Models\User::exists()) {
 4        // returns boolean true or false if the table has any saved rows
 5    }
 6 
 7    if (\App\Models\User::count()) {
 8        // returns the count of rows in the table
 9    }
10}

Tip given by @aschmelyun