Laravel 5.1 - Organising Factories

Question

This seems like it should be a fairly simply question, but with Laravels (5.1) model factories, am I supposed to place every model definition inside the one ModelFactory.php file?

If, for example, I have 200 different models, I can see this file (Database\Factories\ModelFactory.php) getting very large and cluttered.

My question is:

Is there a better way to organise model factories, or should I really define them all in that one file? What is best practice?

Answer 1

If you have a look at the source code you can see that it takes the path (/factories) and requires every single file. So you can definitely create as many files as you want in that directory and separate them by concern or model.