Discover an essential and underrated technique for populating your local development environment with usable data: creating a seed script for your database. This video offers a walkthrough of a real-life seed script using Prisma in a monorepo setup. Learn about important checks to avoid running the script in production, utilizing libraries like Faker for generating fake data, and combining tools like Prisma and Lodash to efficiently create bulk records.
Faker: https://fakerjs.dev
Prisma: https://www.prisma.io
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00:00 Intro
00:58 Setting Up the Seed Script
01:11 Ensuring Safety Checks
02:10 Truncating and Writing Data
03:18 Using Faker for Fake Data
06:22 Writing More Data
09:39 Finalizing the Seed Script
09:58 Conclusion and Next Steps
