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Tutorial April 10, 2025 26 min read Premium

Laravel Factories and Seeders: All You Need to Know

Seeding data in Laravel is quite simple, but also has a lot of caveats, less-known functions and use-cases. Both Seeders and Factories have so much "hidden" power that we've compiled this HUGE tutorial, with screenshots from real scenarios.

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Tutorial October 11, 2022 2 min read Free

Laravel Seeding: HasMany with Multiple Levels

When using seeders, the data is often interconnected: we want to seed some data with related records. Is there a "quick" syntax to do it?

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Video 7:38 mins Free

Want Faster Laravel App? Always Use Factories and Seeds

My advice from practice, on the way of thinking and the approach how to test your application with a bigger amount of data.

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Video 5:07 mins Free

Laravel Seeders and Factories: 5 Things You May Not Know

We've analyzed the features of Laravel Factories and Seeders, and here are five tips.

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Quick Tip

Using factories with relationships

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Code Example laravelio/laravel.io

laravelio/laravel.io

Files in the example:

database/factories/LikeFactory.php
tests/Integration/Jobs/DeleteThreadTest.php

Code Example tighten/novapackages

tighten/novapackages

Files in the example:

database/factories/PackageFactory.php
database/seeders/DatabaseSeeder.php

Code Example spatie/freek.dev

spatie/freek.dev

Files in the example:

database/factories/LinkFactory.php
database/seeders/LinkSeeder.php

Code Example brendt/aggregate.stitcher.io

brendt/aggregate.stitcher.io

Files in the example:

database/factories/SourceFactory.php
tests/Domain/Post/Models/PostTest.php

Code Example driesvints/driesvints.com

driesvints/driesvints.com

Files in the example:

database/factories/PostFactory.php
database/seeders/PostSeeder.php

Code Example akaunting/akaunting

akaunting/akaunting

Files in the example:

database/factories/Account.php
database/seeds/SampleData.php

Code Example Bottelet/DaybydayCRM

Bottelet/DaybydayCRM

Files in the example:

database/factories/ProjectFactory.php
database/factories/OfferFactory.php
database/seeds/DemoTableSeeder.php

Code Example caneara/tipsea

caneara/tipsea

Files in the example:

database/factories/TipFactory.php

Code Example caneara/lumeno

caneara/lumeno

Files in the example:

database/factories/VacancyFactory.php