Example data in developer environment about documentation HOT 4 OPEN

Yes! This is a very good point. There's another issue somewhere about improving the setup process so that you don't need to have email working as well, which is related to this.

from documentation.

Oh ok, I think that might be BookWyrm issue 1665

from documentation.

I think that this maybe should be part of some dev-setup script that could add a book and author + maybe some status posts as mock-data directly into the db? I don't have time to check right now, but shouldn't most of this stuff already exist as part of testing suites, @mouse-reeve ? If so could we just break it out as mock data and have it shared across dev + testing environments?

from documentation.

I've been creating the test data ad-hoc in the tests, it would probably have been wiser to write a single script that generates test data, but at this point it would be quite an endeavor to refactor the tests.

But it wouldn't be hard to add a script that adds example data to dev.

from documentation.