nullthoughts / laravel-data-sync
Laravel utility to keep records synced between environments through source control
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Requires
- php: ^8.0
- ext-json: *
Requires (Dev)
- orchestra/testbench: ^7.0
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Last update: 2025-10-11 13:57:29 UTC
README
Laravel Data Sync
Laravel utility to keep records synchronized between environments through source control
V3.1 branch Notes (Work in progress)
- Adds support for Laravel 8+ models directory in
config/data-sync.php:
'namespace' => '\\App\\Models\\',
- Adds ability to export existing Models to data sync files:
php artisan data:export User --criteria=name --criteria=email --except=id
which generates
[
{
"_name": "Cameron Frye",
"properties->title": "Best Friend",
"phone_numbers->mobile": "555-555-5556",
"_email": "noreply@buellerandco.com",
}
]
- Further work is required to support remote disks. For testing & development of new V3.1 features, use
composer require nullthoughts/laravel-data-sync:v3.1.x-dev
Installation
You can install this package via composer:
composer require nullthoughts/laravel-data-sync
Or add this line in your composer.json, inside of the require section:
{
"require": {
"nullthoughts/laravel-data-sync": "^1.0",
}
}
then run composer install
Usage
- Run
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="nullthoughts\LaravelDataSync\DataSyncBaseServiceProvider" --tag="data-sync-config"to publish config file. Specify directory for sync data files (default is a new sync directory in the project root) - Create a JSON file for each model, using the model name as the filename. Example: Product.json would update the Product model
- Use nested arrays in place of hardcoded IDs for relationships
- Run
php artisan data:sync(orphp artisan data:sync --model={model}with the model flag to specify a model)
Optional
If using Laravel Forge, you can have the data sync run automatically on deploy. Edit your deploy script in Site -> App to include:
if [ -f artisan ]
then
php artisan migrate --force
php artisan data:sync
fi
Notes
- use studly case for model name relationships as JSON keys (example: 'option_group' => 'OptionGroup'). This is important for case sensitive file systems.
- empty values are skipped
- the criteria/attributes for updateOrCreate are identified with a leading underscore
- nested values represent relationships and are returned using where($key, $value)->first()->id
- order of import can be set in config/data-sync.php with an array:
return [
'path' => base_path('sync'),
'order' => [
'Role',
'Supervisor',
]
];
Examples
User.json:
[
{
"name": "Ferris Bueller",
"properties->title": "Leisure Consultant",
"phone_numbers->mobile": "555-555-5555",
"phone_numbers->office": "",
"_email": "ferris@buellerandco.com",
"department": {
"name": "Management",
"location": {
"name": "Chicago"
}
}
}
]
translates to...
User::updateOrCreate([ 'email' => 'ferris@buellerandco.com', ],[ 'name' => 'Ferris Bueller', 'properties->title' => 'Leisure Consultant', 'phone_numbers->mobile' => '555-555-5555', 'department_id' => Department::where('name', 'Management') ->where('location_id', Location::where('name', 'Chicago')->first()->id) ->first() ->id, ]);
Role.json:
[
{
"_slug": "update-student-records"
},
{
"_slug": "borrow-ferrari"
},
{
"_slug": "destroy-ferrari"
}
]
translates to...
Role::updateOrCreate(['slug' => 'update-student-records']); Role::updateOrCreate(['slug' => 'borrow-ferrari']); Role::updateOrCreate(['slug' => 'destroy-ferrari']);
RoleUser.json (pivot table with model):
[
{
"_user": {
"email": "ferris@buellerandco.com"
},
"_role": {
"slug": "update-student-records"
}
},
{
"_user": {
"email": "ferris@buellerandco.com"
},
"_role": {
"slug": "borrow-ferrari"
}
},
{
"_user": {
"email": "ferris@buellerandco.com"
},
"_role": {
"slug": "destroy-ferrari"
}
}
]
translates to...
RoleUser::updateOrCreate([ 'user_id' => User::where('email', 'ferris@buellerandco.com')->first()->id, 'role_id' => Role::where('slug', 'update-student-records')->first()->id, ]); RoleUser::updateOrCreate([ 'user_id' => User::where('email', 'ferris@buellerandco.com')->first()->id, 'role_id' => Role::where('slug', 'borrow-ferrari')->first()->id, ]); RoleUser::updateOrCreate([ 'user_id' => User::where('email', 'ferris@buellerandco.com')->first()->id, 'role_id' => Role::where('slug', 'destroy-ferrari')->first()->id, ]);