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A year ago, there was no active Laravel community in Serbia. Just an idea, a lot of enthusiasm, and the quiet fear that maybe no one would show up. At first, almost no one did. Here’s how we grew from 0 to +100 members, what I learned along the way, and why I keep building.
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Debugging your PHP code is an essential part of the development process. PHPStorm and XDebug 3 are powerful tools that can help you debug your code efficiently. However, sometimes you may encounter an issue where the debugger never stops on a breakpoint. Here are some steps you can take to troubleshoot this issue.

I am thrilled to be using Pest for PHP testing! The syntax is incredibly readable and expressive, which makes writing and maintaining tests a joy. I love how Pest's conversational style feels more like a natural language than a coding language, making it so easy to understand what each test is doing. The additional features, such as test parallelization and coverage reports, are a huge bonus that help me to be more productive and confident in my work. Overall, Pest has transformed my testing experience and made me a very happy developer!

Running php tests on Laravel is breeze. You simply run php artisan test command. However if you are testing database, you have two options. One is to create your testing database and another is to use SQLite in memory.