Saving a Seed Database

In order to make it easy for new devel­op­ers to onboard into the project and get their local dev envi­ron­ment up and run­ning quick­ly, we cre­ate a seed or starter data­base export to use local­ly. Lat­er on in the course we will walk through the expe­ri­ence of a new devel­op­er set­ting up the project and this seed data­base will be used then.

To get the seed data­base we will export it out of Craft using the data­base export util­i­ty (Util­ties -> Data­base Back­up). We rename it and add it to our Git repos­i­to­ry so it’s always avail­able for every devel­op­er new to the project.