Laravel : How do I insert the first user in the database

I’m doing it this way:

creating seeder with artisan:

php artisan make:seeder UsersTableSeeder

then you open the file and you enter users:

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;

class UsersTableSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        DB::table('users')->insert([
            'name' => 'User1',
            'email' => 'user1@email.com',
            'password' => bcrypt('password'),
        ]);
        DB::table('users')->insert([
            'name' => 'user2',
            'email' => 'user2@email.com',
            'password' => bcrypt('password'),
        ]);
    }
}

If you want to generate random list of users, you can use factories:

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;

class UsersTableSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        factory(App\User::class, 50)->create();
        /* or you can add also another table that is dependent on user_id:*/
       /*factory(App\User::class, 50)->create()->each(function($u) {
            $userId = $u->id;
            DB::table('posts')->insert([
                'body' => str_random(100),
                'user_id' => $userId,
            ]);
        });*/
    }
}

Then in the file app/database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php uncomment or add in run function a line:

$this->call(UsersTableSeeder::class);

it will look like this:

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        $this->call(UsersTableSeeder::class);
    }
}

At the end you run:

php artisan db:seed

or

php artisan db:seed --class=UsersTableSeeder

I hope will help someone.
PS: this was done on Laravel 5.3