<p>Up until now, browser testing in Laravel has felt… bad. Dusk was a huge step over nothing, but it's been slow and flaky and just waiting to be replaced with something better. And with Pest 4, Nuno's cracked it!</p><p>In today's episode of Over Engineered with dig into the technical details of what makes browser testing in Pest 4 both <strong>very fast</strong> and <strong>much more stable</strong> than Dusk and all the other browser testing approaches that came before it.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a href="https://pestphp.com/">Pest</a></li><li><a href="https://nunomaduro.com/">Nuno Maduro</a> (<a href="https://nunomaduro.com/socials">all his socials</a>)</li><li><a href="https://playwright.dev/">Playwright</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/p-LNw423EwU?si=I0CKSTZywMv9munt">Nuno's livestream of this episode</a></li></ul>

Over Engineered

Chris Morrell

(Actually good) browser testing w/ Nuno Maduro

AUG 8, 2025114 MIN
Over Engineered

(Actually good) browser testing w/ Nuno Maduro

AUG 8, 2025114 MIN

Description

Up until now, browser testing in Laravel has felt… bad. Dusk was a huge step over nothing, but it's been slow and flaky and just waiting to be replaced with something better. And with Pest 4, Nuno's cracked it!

In today's episode of Over Engineered with dig into the technical details of what makes browser testing in Pest 4 both very fast and much more stable than Dusk and all the other browser testing approaches that came before it.

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