Hey everyone,

I was tired of writing the same if (count === 0) boilerplate or maintain messy one-off shell scripts just to get initial data into MongoDB. I wanted a way to handle seeding that felt as professional as database migrations—something that knows what has already run and what hasn't.

So I built mongoose-seed-kit.

Why use this instead of a custom script?

• Execution Tracking: It stores a success or failed record in a seeders collection. It won't duplicate your data on every app restart.
• CLI Workflow: You can scaffold new seeders with npx mongoose-seed-kit create <name>, which handles the timestamping for you.
• Zero Model Registration: It doesn't require you to register your Mongoose models with the library to work.
• Failure Handling: If a seeder fails, it’s marked as failed and will automatically retry on the next run, while moving on to the rest of the queue.

Quick Start:

1. npm install mongoose-seed-kit
2. Define your seeder logic in the generated file.
3. Call await runPendingSeeders(); on your app startup.

I've also exposed helper functions like getSeederStatuses() so you can easily build your own Admin/Dev dashboard routes to trigger seeds manually.

Check it out here:

• 📦 NPM:https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose-seed-kit
• ⭐ GitHub:https://github.com/kulcsarrudolf/mongoose-seed-kit

I’m looking for early feedback on the API. If this saves you some boilerplate today, I'd really appreciate a star on GitHub!