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You could simply do a mysqldump locally, and use a DB seeder or even a migration to import the .sql file:
$res = DB::unprepared(file_get_contents(database_path('import.sql')));
But normally, you'd have your local DB created by using a combination of migrations (creating the tables) and DB Seeders (filling in the DB)
If you did so, you could put your project online and simpyl run
php artisan migrate:fresh --seed