How to work with seeds in Laravel?

Question

Laravel

There is a small test project (online store). Quite often I refresh my migrations. The problem is that when publishing products, you need to select a city, for this I climb into pgadmin and paste my dump there. Is it possible to automate this business somehow with the help of seeds? What would not be fake cities, but real ones?

Answer 1

yes, that's what they exist for.

Answer 2

Seeds are intended for a slightly different purpose, their main goal is test automation, and therefore the set of methods is appropriate. Well, by default, they cannot be launched on production (only using the --force switch). But how then to separate the seeds for the data and for the test? In short, not an option.
You can just use migrations. You can write logic and so on in them, including initialization and or loading of any data by default into the database.