You can now easily change the default database auto increment value in Laravel

September 07, 2020 / Eric L. Barnes

Laravel 8 adds a brand new method to make changing the auto-increment starting value easy, and here is the official announcement made on Twitter:

Sneaking this into Laravel 8.x today… pic.twitter.com/Bg24S7iX4j

— Taylor Otwell (@taylorotwell) September 6, 2020

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->id()->startingValue(1200);
        ...

Changing the auto-increment through the various database platforms has always been possible, but you needed to do it via a raw command. With the addition of the startingValue method, this allows you to set the first number the auto-increment will start at in a fluent Laravel way.

For most apps, you will probably not need this but in those situations where you do not want a record starting at one, it’s a handy option.