On .NET Live: Next-level EF Core Data Seeding with Bogus

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When you seed your app's database for testing, do you use realistic data? Or do you manually enter Mr. Test Userone and Ms. Test Usertwo and call it a day? In this week's episode, community MVP Sander ten Brinke joins us along with Brian Chavez, the developer of Bogus, a library for seeding databases in Entity Framework Core apps. Come learn how to uplevel your data seeding code! ⌚ Chapters: 00:00 Countdown 3:07 Welcome to On .NET Live 05:04 Agenda 06:15 Bogus 09:55 Demo 14:45 Multi-language 20:36 Why is Bogus useful? 23:30 Datasets 25:47 Bogus and Faker.js 29:15 Locales and languages 30:10 API Extension Methods 31:15 Community NuGet Extensions 33:10 Q&A 37:51 Entity Framework Core 40:15 A practical example 42:55 The pain of setting up data for a new system 43:47 Setting up test data with EF Core 44:40 Migrations 47:07 Q&A 48:50 Combining Entity Framework Core with Bogus 50:35 Demo 58:00 The future of Bogus 58:51 Resources 59:33 Wrap Resources: Bogus: https://github.com/bchavez/Bogus EF Core: https://github.com/dotnet/efcore Blog: https://stenbrinke.nl/blog/taking-ef-core-data-seeding-to-the-next-level-with-bogus/ Demo: https://github.com/sander1095/bogus-efcore-demo Featuring: Sander ten Brinke (@sandertenbrinke), Brian Chavez (@bchavez) #ef-core #database

Published 2024-04-16 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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