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