Last week our team released a new package called laravel-db-snapshots. It provides a few artisan commands to quickly dump and load a database. We've built this for is to help us develop features in an app that require the database to be in a specific state. With this package we can take a dump of the db, try out the feature that modifies the db. When there are bugs, we can fix them, load up the dump and try again.

Here's how the package can be used:

# Create a dump
php artisan snapshot:create my-first-dump

# Make some changes to your db
# ...

# Create another dump
php artisan snapshot:create my-second-dump

# Load up the first dump
php artisan snapshot:load my-first-dump

# List all snapshots
php artisan snapshot:list

Currently the package has support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sqlite databases. To learn more about it head over to the readme on GitHub. If you like it, be sure to take a look at the other Laravel packages our team has previously built.