PHP Cross-Framework Integration Patterns

This skill covers how PHP's major frameworks and tools work together: Laravel+Pest testing, PHP 8.4 features in Laravel, Filament's architecture within Laravel, Laravel Octane with application servers, and Livewire+Filament component integration.

Laravel + Pest Testing

Setup

Pest ships as the default test runner for new Laravel projects. The pest-plugin-laravel package re-exposes Laravel's testing helpers as top-level functions.

# New project — already configured
laravel new my-app