How to create a user by default in Laravel

Sure, we can user Laravel’s database seeding and $faker to create any number of fake users. Personally, I don’t like to waste time fetching a new random user and their email address to continue my testing. I like have the same user created each time database is seeded. I do it like this.

1. Run below command to create a new seeder in database/seeds directory.
   php artisan make:seeder UserSeeder
2. In run method of UserSeeder.php paste following code

$user = User::create([
          'name' => 'Saqib',
          'email' => 'saqib@saqib.com',
          'password' => Hash::make('password'),
          'level' => 1
        ]);

4. Finally, add below line in run method in seeds\DatabaseSeeder.php $this->call(UserSeeder::class);

5. Then each time you run php artisan db:seed, this user will be created and you can keep building what matters to you :)