laravel:migrations-and-factories

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides guidance on managing database schema changes in Laravel applications, ensuring safety, testability, and reversibility. It addresses the common challenges of modifying existing migrations and structuring database seeding.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Migration Management: Best practices for creating, modifying, and rolling back database migrations.
• Model-Migration Pairing: Ensures that every new model is accompanied by its corresponding migration and factory.
• Seeding Guidance: Recommendations for creating realistic yet minimal datasets for seeding.
• Use Case: When developing a new feature, you need to add a new table and its associated model. This Skill guides you on how to create a migration for the table, a factory for test data, and the model itself, ensuring they are all linked and managed correctly.

Quick Start

Use the laravel:migrations-and-factories skill to create a new model named 'User' with its migration and factory.