Use faker outside factories or seeders

If you want to generate some fake data, you can use Faker even outside factories or seeds, in any class.

Keep in mind: to use it in production, you need to move faker from "require-dev" to "require" in composer.json

use Faker;
 
class WhateverController extends Controller
{
    public function whatever_method()
    {
        $faker = Faker\Factory::create();
        $address = $faker->streetAddress;
    }
}