Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5

Creating our first database seed

In the previous steps, we basically followed the same procedure as in Chapter 1, Understanding the Core Concepts of Laravel 5, so now we are not going to use the Faker library to create our data. Faker is a very useful tool as it's easy to use and quick to create data during the development of applications with Laravel.

In this example, we want to keep the data we have created more consistent with the application we are creating, so we will use an external JSON file with the data we want to insert into our database.

1. Inside the project/database folder, create a new folder called data-sample.
2. Inside the project/database/data-sample folder, create a new file called bikes.json and add the following code: