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Write Better Laravel Tests with Pest PHP
Pest PHP makes Laravel testing more expressive and less boilerplate-heavy. This tutorial walks through installation, expectations, datasets, higher-order tests, and architecture rules.
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Write Better Laravel Tests with Pest PHP
If you have ever looked at a wall of PHPUnit boilerplate and thought "there has to be a better way," there is. Pest PHP is a testing framework built on top of PHPUnit that gives you a more expressive, less ceremonious syntax for writing tests — and it ships as the default testing framework in new Laravel applications. This tutorial covers Pest from installation through the features that make it genuinely worth using over plain PHPUnit. Installation New Laravel projects include Pest by default. For existing projects, install it and run the migration command: composer require pestphp/pest --dev composer require pestphp/pest-plugin-laravel --dev ./vendor/bin/pest --init Run your tests with: php artisan test # or ./vendor/bin/pest The Basic Syntax In PHPUnit, every test is a class with a method. In Pest, a test is a function call: // PHPUnit class UserTest extends TestCase { public function test_a_user_can_be_created(): void { $user = User::factory()->create(); $this->assertInstanceOf(User...
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