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GitHub Actions + Pest Sharding — Cut Laravel CI from 12 Minutes to 3

Split your Pest suite across four GitHub Actions matrix jobs, balance them by real execution time, and gate merges on a single status check.

8 min read
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PestStan — Type-Safe Pest 4 Tests With PHPStan Generics in a Laravel App

PestStan teaches PHPStan about Pest's globals — generic expect() types, proper $this binding, and rules that catch broken assertions before the test even runs.

9 min read
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Pest 4 Snapshot Testing for Laravel API Responses: Catch Accidental Schema Drift

Pest 4 has snapshot testing built in. One expectation locks down the shape of your JSON responses so renamed keys and disappearing fields stop slipping into production unnoticed.

8 min read
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Pest 4 Browser Testing with Playwright: A Dusk Replacement That Actually Sticks

Pest 4 ships a first-party browser plugin powered by Playwright. Auto-waits, parallel runs, and time-balanced shards turn a 12-minute Dusk suite into a 90-second CI job.

9 min read
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Enforcing Laravel architecture rules with Pest's arch() helper

Pest's arch() helper lets you write rules that enforce your app's structure at test time: no more accidentally importing Eloquent into a controller.

5 min read
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The Complete Laravel Developer Toolchain for 2026

Stop spending days configuring tools. Here is every tool in my Laravel stack for 2026, why I chose each one, and exactly how to set it up.

18 min read