Seeding so you can see how your app looks

The wishlist area we made previously is really tough for me or a product owner to sign off on without some data in there. What I will do in this recipe is show how to seed that area of your website so you can then have a more realistic look at the feature with data.

Getting ready

Just follow the previous recipe called Using factories for migration and tests. After you are done there, the page /wish_lists should look like this:

Getting ready

How to do it…

  1. The scaffolding from the previous recipe created a new file called database/seeds/WishListTableSeeder.php. If you're not using scaffolding, you can easily make these on your ...

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