How to create automated Github Workflow for Laravel Pint and PHP PEST

What is Github Workflow

GitHub Workflow is a powerful tool that allows developers to automate various tasks and processes related to software development, such as building, testing, and deploying applications.

What is Laravel Pint

Laravel Pint is an opinionated PHP code style fixer for minimalists. Pint is built on top of PHP-CS-Fixer and makes it simple to ensure that your code style stays clean and consistent.

What is PHP PEST

PHP Pest is a testing framework for PHP applications. It is inspired by Jest, a popular testing framework for JavaScript. Pest provides a clean and expressive syntax for writing tests and comes with a wide range of features to simplify the testing process.

We can say PHP Pest is a total alternative for PHPUnit. Pest is more simple and has more features than PHPUnit. Laravel has lots of support for this library.

How to create that Github workflow for Laravel Pint and PHP PEST

Create a file in your repository under `.github/workflows/php-tests.yml`

Where in the `.github` folder, we’ve to create another folder `workflows`, then create a file `php-test.yml`. This file name could be anything. Let’s write the below codes in `php-test.yml`.

name: Laravel Tests
on:
 pull_request:
 branches:
 - main
 push:
 branches:
 - main
jobs:
 laravel-tests:
 runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 # Service container Mysql mysql
 services:
 # Label used to access the service container
 mysql:
 # Docker Hub image (also with version)
 image: mysql:5.7
 env:
 MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: secret
 MYSQL_DATABASE: testing
 ## map the "external" 33306 port with the "internal" 3306
 ports:
 - 33306:3306
 # Set health checks to wait until mysql database has started (it takes some seconds to start)
 options: >-
 - health-cmd="mysqladmin ping"
 - health-interval=10s
 - health-timeout=5s
 - health-retries=3
strategy:
 matrix:
 operating-system: [ubuntu-latest]
 php-versions: [ '8.1' ]
 dependency-stability: [ prefer-stable ]
name: P${{ matrix.php-versions }} - L${{ matrix.laravel }} - ${{ matrix.dependency-stability }} - ${{ matrix.operating-system}}
steps:
 - uses: actions/checkout@v2
 - name: Install PHP versions
 uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
 with:
 php-version: ${{ matrix.php-versions }}
 - name: Get Composer Cache Directory 2
 id: composer-cache
 run: |
 echo "::set-output name=dir::$(composer config cache-files-dir)"
 - uses: actions/cache@v2
 id: actions-cache
 with:
 path: ${{ steps.composer-cache.outputs.dir }}
 key: ${{ runner.os }}-composer-${{ hashFiles('**/composer.lock') }}
 restore-keys: |
 ${{ runner.os }}-composer-
 - name: Cache PHP dependencies
 uses: actions/cache@v2
 id: vendor-cache
 with:
 path: vendor
 key: ${{ runner.OS }}-build-${{ hashFiles('**/composer.lock') }}
 - name: Copy .env
 run: php -r "file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');"
 - name: Install Dependencies
 run: composer install - no-interaction - prefer-dist - optimize-autoloader
- name: Create storage folders
 run: mkdir -p storage/framework/{sessions,views,cache}
 - name: Directory Permissions
 run: chmod -R 777 storage bootstrap/cache
- name: Show dir
 run: pwd
 - name: PHP Version
 run: php - version
# Code quality
 - name: Execute tests (Unit and Feature tests) via PestPHP
 # Set environment
 env:
 DB_CONNECTION: mysql
 DB_DATABASE: testing
 DB_PORT: 33306
 DB_USER: root
 DB_PASSWORD: secret
 run: |
 php artisan key:generate
 vendor/bin/pest
- name: Run Pint
 run: vendor/bin/pint

For more and step by setup instruction and every line meaning, please check this article, it will be super helpful to clear your concept — https://devsenv.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-github-workflow-for-laravel-pint-and-php-pest-testing

Demo Github workflow response