Full-Stack Vue.js 2 and Laravel 5

Loading the mock data
Laravel provides a File facade that allows us to open files from disk as simply as
File::get($path). To get the full path to our mock data file we can use the
base_path() helper function, which returns the path to the root of our application
directory as a string.
It's then trivial to convert this JSON file to a PHP array using the built-in
json_decode method. Once the data is an array, it can be directly inserted into the
database given that the column names of the table are the same as the array keys.
database/ListingsTableSeeder.php:
public function run()
{
$path = base_path() . '/database/data.json';
$file = File::get($path);
$data = json_decode($file, true);
}