Create Commands to Seed Database

🌎 Our Open Source Projects Financial Freedom
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:point_right: Describe the problem

On a fresh install of Financial Freedom, there are no defaulted categories, tags, etc. and this can take a while to populate. This will also deter users from using the app. We need to create a set of artisan commands to seed the database by choice so the users can get started easily.

:busts_in_silhouette: Problem evidence & reach

Any new user to Financial Freedom

:smiling_face_with_three_hearts: Describe the “impact” on users?

The user will have a fresh start with pre-populated categories, tags, etc and can get right to adding transactions.

:trophy: How to solve this problem

Make a series of commands/admin endpoints that seed the database for the user.

Potential Commands

  • php artisan ff:seed categories (with optional flag --small for only top level categories)
  • php artisan ff:seed tags

Admin Endpoints

  • Should be a button to run these commands as well so the user can do this at any time.
  • We should also do this on initial log in when we get an onboarding process.

:100: How do we validate the problem is solved?

The user will have pre-populated data and won’t have to spend hours manually adding categories, tags, etc.