Added suggestion for dragon-code/laravel-data-dumper

Author: andrey-helldar

composer.json

@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@
         "dragon-code/laravel-migration-actions": "*"
     },
     "suggest": {
-        "doctrine/dbal": "This package must be installed if you are using Laravel 10."
+        "doctrine/dbal": "This package must be installed if you are using Laravel 10.",
+        "dragon-code/laravel-data-dumper": "Required if you want to save the execution state using the `schema:dump` console command"
     },
     "minimum-stability": "stable",
     "prefer-stable": true,

docs/.vuepress/config.js

@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ export default defineUserConfig({
                     {
                         text: 'Installation',
                         link: '/getting-started/installation/index.md'
+                    },
+                    {
+                        text: 'Database Dumper',
+                        link: '/getting-started/database-dumper/index.md'
                     }
                 ]
             },

docs/getting-started/database-dumper/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Database Dumper
+
+As you build your application, you may accumulate more and more migrations over time.
+This can lead to your `database/migrations` directory becoming bloated with potentially hundreds of migrations.
+If you would like, you may "squash" your migrations into a single SQL file.
+To get started, execute the `schema:dump` command:
+
+```bash
+php artisan schema:dump
+ 
+# Dump the current database schema and prune all existing migrations...
+php artisan schema:dump --prune
+```
+
+You can read more about the operation of this console command in
+the [official documentation](https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/migrations#squashing-migrations).
+
+Here we mention this console command because operations tend to save the execution state in order to prevent re-runs
+where this is not explicitly allowed.
+But if you run sequentially the console commands `php artisan schema:dump` and `php artisan migrate:fresh`, you will see
+that all actions will be called again.
+
+This is due to the fact that the dump mechanism saves the contents of just one table - `migrations`.
+
+To solve this problem, there is a [Database Data Dumper](https://github.com/TheDragonCode/laravel-data-dumper)
+project that allows you to specify a list of tables required for export to a dump.
+
+In addition to those that you can easily specify in its configuration file, we recommend that you also specify
+the `operations` table from this project in order to save the state of the operations when performing a clean deployment
+of the database from a dump.
+
+```bash
+composer require dragon-code/laravel-data-dumper --dev
+```