Class "Faker\Factory" not found

[CushtyDev]

Laravel Version

11

PHP Version

8.3

Database Driver & Version

No response

Description

Hi I have double-checked my Laravel app with filament and there are only vendor files using the faker library I am not using it in my code, but Forge is showing this error:

In DatabaseServiceProvider.php line 93:
Class "Faker\Factory" not found

I have seen some people say move faker to required in composer but I find it strange as I haven't used faker in my code, so do not need it in production, thanks

Steps To Reproduce

Seed data in Forge, keep faker in dev on composer file.

[JamesFreeman]

Faker is a dev dependency - if you've deployed to forge, it won't have installed those. If you need to generate random seed data in production, you'll need to move it into a normal dependency - or don't use random data/faker in the seeders.

[CushtyDev]

Hi i am using a seeder but not using Faker, I designed my own seeders. Tha's why I am not sure why faker needs to be in required dependency. Thanks

[JamesFreeman]

Do you still have the default user seeder?

https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/11.x/database/seeders/DatabaseSeeder.php

[CushtyDev]

Yes I call my seeders from the default seeder, and I have a couple of user seeders there to, thanks

[JamesFreeman]

The default User seed will use a factory hence the Faker\Factory being called. If you remove the ::factory() call, Does that resolve your issue?

[dofan28]

This case is like I experienced, the solution I found is not to use User::factory(1)->create(); but use User::create([ .... ]);

[ripers]

Thank you, this helped me.

I also found out that it will work if you add "fakerphp/faker": "^1.23" to the "require" section of Composer.json.

Either that or you can run composer install without the --no-dev flag.