Is it correct to enter data directly from migrations?

Question

Laravel

For example, I create a table with roles and I immediately need to add several roles there. Or I add a new role to a table already filled with some data. Create posts directly from migrations? In this case, the migrations become too large. What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

There is no clear answer here. But in general, you can follow the following logic:
- if this is test data, then do it in seeds;
- if this is real data for the application to work, then either in migrations, or write a console command that will enter this data. Similar to seeds, but already within the application, with checks of different conditions (the current environment, for example).
My last two projects are porting applications from WordPress to Laravel and I created console commands and import mechanisms from csv / xml, and filled in small amounts of role types in migrations.

Answer 2

For this there are seeds Tyk