Is it possible to prevent Laravel running Model Events when the database is being Seeded?

Question

Laravel's seeder runs a variety of Model Events on my models which trigger New Order notification emails, among other things, from the Product::saved() Model Event.

This significantly slows down database seeding. Is it possible to detect whether a Seed is being ran and if so, tell Laravel not to run the Model Events?

Answer 1

Add WithoutModelEvents Trait to your seeder

namespace Database\Seeders;

use Illuminate\Database\Console\Seeds\WithoutModelEvents;
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
    use WithoutModelEvents;

    public function run(): void
    {
        // Silent eloquent queries ...
    }
}