mohamadtsn / laravel-fast-refresh-database
Quickly refresh your large database in tests.
Package info
github.com/mohamadtsn/laravel-fast-refresh-database
pkg:composer/mohamadtsn/laravel-fast-refresh-database
Requires
- php: 8.0.*|8.1.*|8.2.*|8.3.*|8.4.*|8.5.*
- laravel/framework: 8.*|9.*|10.*|11.*|12.*|13.*
Requires (Dev)
- orchestra/testbench: >=3.0.0
- phpunit/phpunit: >=6.0.0
This package is auto-updated.
Last update: 2026-05-14 01:00:44 UTC
README
For large databases with more than 100 tables, it is very slow to drop all the tables and migrate again.
It is also still very slow to run the truncate query against all the tables.
The idea of this package is to truncate only the tables that are involved in that particular test and ignore the rest.
This way, only 5 to 6 tables need to be truncated after each test and not 200 tables.
Note that no table gets dropped or migrated. It only runs the truncate table_name query.
Install:
composer require mohamadtsn/laravel-fast-refresh-database --dev
How to Use:
Add the trait to your test class. The package automatically starts watching insert queries before each test (via a PHPUnit @before hook) and truncates only the tables that were touched after each test:
use MohamadTsn\DatabaseFresh\FastRefreshDatabase; class MyTest extends TestCase { use FastRefreshDatabase; public function test_user_can_run() { // ... your test code } }
Tip: Put the trait on your base Tests\\TestCase to enable it for all tests.
Manual setup (legacy PHPUnit):
If your PHPUnit version does not support @before, you can still invoke the setup helper in setUp():
protected function setUp(): void { parent::setUp(); // Manually start watching inserts for this test process $this->setupDatabaseAndStartWatchingTables(); }
You may also check my other package as well:
Credits
License
The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.