A few different ways to seed databases in Laravel 

Thank you, really great video for understanding database seeder and factories

Thank you very much, this was helpful

Another trick: if you have taxonomies, pre-built categories or any special things you want to seed into your database when you start a new project, you can read from a JSON file then run a foreach loop in a seeder. You can also verify for the existence of the model rows before actually create it. Useful for seeding countries, languages, topics or some other stuff like that.

Excellent tutorial, thanks a lot.

Thanks for that video, man! Maybe good for a follow-up video: seeding 10 users and then for each user ... random 1 through 5 comments. $users = (all 10 users)->each->closure->(using extra variables)

thanks alot!

Yeeey.. No more conditionals or loops ... thanks