laravel:migrations-and-factories

To safely pair Laravel migrations with factories, run the recommended artisan command that generates a model alongside its migration and factory simultaneously. This guarantees repeatable deployments by keeping schema changes and test data generation aligned across development environments.

Database seeding best practices involve keeping datasets minimal, realistic, and externalized where appropriate. Proper seeding ensures deterministic, reproducible deployments by providing structured test data that aligns with your migrations and factories.

You need to create a migration and factory together whenever adding a new model to a Laravel application. Pairing them guarantees repeatable deployments and ensures schema changes have coordinated data generation across all environments.

You should not modify Laravel migrations already merged to main. Safe branching practices require creating new migrations for schema changes instead of altering existing ones, ensuring database evolution remains safe and reproducible across environments.

The safest way to manage database schema changes is by aligning migrations with factories and following structured seeding guidance. This approach enforces safe branching rules and ensures deterministic, reproducible deployments across all development environments.