(96) What are the Factories in Laravel | How to use the Factories in Laravel App
9What are the factories in Laravel, How to use Factories in Laravel Application
Most times when we have to develop applications with dummy data, we type them in ourselves or use Postman to POST to our database. This works, but it sucks. 😢
Some other times, having completed our applications, we need them to have some data for a start. We could still type these in, or use Postman again. It works and still sucks. 😢 😩
Laravel - being built with developers in mind - provisions data to test applications with, or launch your applications with. Laravel gives you database seeders which are ways to get data in your application easily. This could be some real data, that you do not want to stress yourself typing, or just fake data, to test your APIs.
Before diving into the how, here are some reasons you’d want to use database seeders:
. Seeders are very easy to use, easier than having to input data yourself
. Seeders get you up and running with little or no effort, you could create hundreds of rows of data by seeding your database once
. Seeders can be reused on multiple servers, meaning deployment to a new server would only mean running your seeder again and getting data in your database again
There are many more reasons to use seeders, but let’s just start using them already. 😆
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