Solved - Laravel 8 Target Class Databaseseeder Does Not Exist

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Few days ago i was migrate my laravel 6 project to laravel 8 version. everything is working fine, but when i run seeder at that time i found following error:

"Target class [Database\Seeders\AdminSeeder] does not exist."

I was wondering what will be a issue because AdminSeeder.php file also there. but i google search and checked then i found, laravel change directory of seeders to seeders. so you can solved your issue with following steps:

Step 1: Rename Folder Name

Here, you need to change directory name database/seeds to database/seeders.

Step 2: Add Namespace to Seeder

we need to add namespace Database\Seeders; to seeders file.

database/seeders/DatabaseSeeder.php

<?php
  
namespace Database\Seeders;
  
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
  
class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Seed the application's database.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        $this->call(AdminSeeder::class);
    }
}

database/seeders/AdminSeeder.php

<?php
  
namespace Database\Seeders;
  
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use App\User;
  
class AdminSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        $user = [
                'name'=>'Super Admin',
                'email'=>'info@lucidsitedesigns.com',
                'type'=>'2',
                'is_active'=>'1',
                'password'=> bcrypt('123456'),
            ];
  
        User::create($user);
    }
}

Step 3: Update Compose.json file

you need to change autoload section on composer.json file.

composer.json

.....
"autoload": {
    "psr-4": {
        "App\\": "app/",
        "Database\\Factories\\": "database/factories/",
        "Database\\Seeders\\": "database/seeders/"
    }
},
.....

Now you can run following all commands of seeder:

composer dump-autoload

php artisan db:seed

php artisan db:seed --class=AdminSeeder

I hope it can help you...