orkestra VS Pest

With this ready you can start building your application by following the documentation.

Laravel also has out-of-the-box testing tools like Pest and PHPUnit and functionalities to enable expressive testing. It also supports executing automated testing sessions that are more precise than manual ones.

For test-driven workflow we need a testing framework. Laravel already has PHPUnit built in, but we replaced it with PestPHP from Nuno Maduro.

That’s why the next step in my workflow is Pest—a modern, elegant testing framework for Laravel built by the legend, Nuno Maduro. Let’s talk about how testing ensures my app isn’t just "correct" in theory, but actually works as expected.

Testing was previously a significant challenge for me until I discovered PestPHP. Its simplicity and expressive syntax transformed a tedious task into a valuable and efficient part of the development process. With PestPHP, ensuring the reliability of my code has never been easier or more efficient. It provides a safety net that catches bugs before they become problems, allowing me to concentrate on building and innovating. To learn more about how PestPHP can enhance your testing experience, please refer to my blog posts. PestPhp

As you can see this template will add and configura the Pest test suite with a custom TestCase class that will start the application for your tests, making easy to test your application services (as used by Orkestra itself) and you will see a basic application, with a single route in the file config/routes.php that calls a Controller that simply render a Twig view.

Today, I finished the first implementation of this environment, adding Pest and PHPUnit in v10.5, which is currently not supported by default with WP Env.

Below, I added some examples for testing the request and client classes. For the tests, I am using Pest PHP which provides a clean syntax and additional features on top of PHPUnit.

Also, it's my personal opinion that when your terminal asks you to give a star to a repository on github that's going to save you hours of toil and heartache, actually taking the time to do it is the same thing as unlocking an achievement in real life. And then you can go back someday and see all those stars and realize how connected you are to all these people who are a lot like you and how much you learned from their stuff. But again, I digress.

By default, Laravel comes with PHPUnit for testing. However you can use Pest instead.