Laravel Seeder Tracker

Track your Laravel seeders execution like migrations with batch support, execution time tracking, and comprehensive status management.

✨ Why Use Seeder Tracker?

In large Laravel applications, managing database seeders becomes complex:

• Duplicate executions can corrupt data or waste time
• No visibility into which seeders have run
• Performance issues go unnoticed
• Environment differences cause inconsistencies

Seeder Tracker solves these problems by bringing migration-like tracking to your seeders!

🚀 Features

• 📊 Migration-like tracking - Know exactly which seeders have run
• ⏱️ Performance monitoring - Track execution time and memory usage
• 🔄 Batch management - Group related seeder executions
• 🛡️ Duplicate prevention - Prevent accidental re-runs in production
• 📈 Rich analytics - Detailed performance insights and reporting
• 🎯 Environment-aware - Smart controls based on your environment
• 💾 Metadata storage - Store custom data from seeder results
• 🔍 Auto-discovery - Automatically find and track all project seeders

📦 Installation

Install via Composer:

composer require ruzaik11/laravel-seeder-tracker

Publish configuration and migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Ruzaik\SeederTracker\SeederTrackerServiceProvider"
php artisan migrate

🎯 Quick Start

1. Create a Trackable Seeder

Replace Seeder with TrackableSeeder:

<?php

namespace Database\Seeders;

use Ruzaik\SeederTracker\Seeders\TrackableSeeder;
use App\Models\User;

class UsersTableSeeder extends TrackableSeeder
{
    protected function seedData()
    {
        // Your seeding logic
        $users = User::factory(100)->create();
        
        // Return metadata for tracking
        return [
            'users_created' => $users->count(),
            'admin_users' => $users->where('is_admin', true)->count(),
        ];
    }
}

2. Run Your Seeders

php artisan db:seed --class=UsersTableSeeder
# ✅ Seeder UsersTableSeeder executed successfully in 1,234ms

3. Check Execution Status

php artisan seeder:status

📊 Seeder Execution Status

+------------------+-------------+------------------+-------+
| Seeder           | Status      | Executed At      | Batch |
+------------------+-------------+------------------+-------+
| UsersTableSeeder | ✅ Executed | Dec 21, 2024 14:30 | 1    |
| ProductSeeder    | ⏳ Pending   | Not executed     | N/A   |
+------------------+-------------+------------------+-------+

Summary: 1/2 seeders executed

📋 Available Commands

Status Management

# Basic status
php artisan seeder:status

# Detailed view with performance metrics
php artisan seeder:status --detailed

# Reset specific seeder
php artisan seeder:status --reset=UsersTableSeeder

# Reset all tracking (with confirmation)
php artisan seeder:status --reset-all

Performance Analytics

# Show performance insights
php artisan seeder:performance

# Limit results
php artisan seeder:performance --limit=5

🔧 Advanced Usage

Environment-Aware Seeding

use Ruzaik\SeederTracker\Traits\SeederHelper;

class ProductionDataSeeder extends TrackableSeeder
{
    use SeederHelper;
    
    protected function seedData()
    {
        // Only run in specific environments
        return $this->runInEnvironments(['production', 'staging'], function () {
            // Production-specific seeding logic
            return ['production_data_created' => true];
        });
    }
}

Performance Optimization

protected function seedData()
{
    $startCount = $this->getTableCount('products');
    
    // Batch insert for better performance
    Product::insert($this->generateProductData(1000));
    
    return [
        'products_created' => $this->getTableCount('products') - $startCount,
        'batch_size' => 1000,
        'optimization' => 'batch_insert_used',
    ];
}

Transaction Safety

protected function seedData()
{
    return DB::transaction(function () {
        // All seeding logic in transaction
        $categories = Category::createMany($this->categoryData());
        $products = Product::createMany($this->productData());
        
        return [
            'categories_created' => count($categories),
            'products_created' => count($products),
            'transaction_safe' => true,
        ];
    });
}

⚙️ Configuration

Customize behavior in config/seeder-tracker.php:

return [
    // Database table for tracking
    'table' => 'seeder_tracking',
    
    // Enable automatic tracking
    'auto_track' => true,
    
    // Prevent duplicate executions
    'prevent_duplicates' => env('SEEDER_PREVENT_DUPLICATES', true),
    
    // Strict environments (always prevent duplicates)
    'strict_environments' => ['production'],
];

📈 Performance Monitoring

Track seeder performance automatically:

php artisan seeder:performance

📊 Performance Summary

Total executions: 15
Average execution time: 1,247ms
Total time spent: 18.7s
Average memory usage: 12.3MB

🐌 Slowest Seeders
+------------------+----------------+-------------+------------------+
| Seeder           | Execution Time | Memory Used | Executed At      |
+------------------+----------------+-------------+------------------+
| ProductSeeder    | 3,456ms        | 25.4MB      | Dec 21, 14:30    |
| UsersTableSeeder | 2,123ms        | 15.7MB      | Dec 21, 14:25    |
+------------------+----------------+-------------+------------------+

🏃 Fastest Seeders
+------------------+----------------+-------------+------------------+
| Seeder           | Execution Time | Memory Used | Executed At      |
+------------------+----------------+-------------+------------------+
| RoleSeeder       | 45ms           | 2.1MB       | Dec 21, 14:20    |
| SettingSeeder    | 67ms           | 3.2MB       | Dec 21, 14:22    |
+------------------+----------------+-------------+------------------+

🧪 Testing

The package includes comprehensive tests:

# Run tests
composer test

# Run with coverage
composer test-coverage

📚 Examples

Check the examples/ directory for:

• Basic seeder implementation
• Advanced environment-aware seeding
• Performance optimization techniques
• Transaction handling patterns

🔧 Troubleshooting

See TROUBLESHOOTING.md for common issues and solutions.

📈 Development Journey

This package was developed over 3+ months with focus on:

• October 2024: Foundation and core architecture
• November 2024: Tracking logic and performance monitoring
• December 2024: Enhanced commands and comprehensive documentation
• January 2025: Community feedback and optimization

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Add tests for new functionality
4. Submit a pull request

📄 License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

👨‍💻 Credits

• Ruzaik Nazeer - Creator and maintainer
• Laravel Community - Inspiration and feedback