Database Seeds

From nodal 0.6 release:

You can now modify config/seed.json to set environment (NODE_ENV) specific seeds. Each environment configuration takes an Object of model names, which each expects an array of objects representing values to insert.

Any beforeSave() logic will be triggered for each Model.

Seeds can executed using nodal db:seed.

For example,

{
  "test": {
    "User": [
      {
        "email": "test@test.com",
        "password": "password",
        "username": "test"
      }
    ],
    "Post": [
      {
        "body": "Hello, world."
      },
      {
        "body": "Post #2"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Troubleshooting

If you get Error: Could not seed, no seed found in "./config/seed.json", it is likely the seed.json file is not well-formed JSON (looking for missing / additional commas, etc.).