CircleCI 2.0 Configuration for Laravel 5.5 with Laravel Dusk

September 11, 2017

Spent a day figuring this out. For anyone who needs help on how to configure it, here you go.

https://github.com/t202wes/circleci-2.0-with-laravel-5.5-and-laravel-dusk/blob/master/.circleci/config.yml

# PHP CircleCI 2.0 configuration file

# Check https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/language-php/ for more details

version: 2
jobs:
build:
docker:
- image: circleci/php:7.0-browsers
working_directory: ~/laravel
steps:
- checkout

  #https://askubuntu.com/questions/594656/how-to-install-the-latest-versions-of-nodejs-and-npm  
  #We are using Node JS 6 because that's the current version on our local vagrant/homestead machines  
  - run:  
     name: Download NodeJS v6  
     command: curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup\_6.x | sudo -E bash -  

  #sqlite needed for laravel database  
  #nodejs6 needed to run \`npm run watch\` later  
  - run:  
     name: Install PHP sqlite and nodejs 6  
     command: sudo apt-get install -y libsqlite3-dev nodejs  


  # Leave this for future use if php-zip is ever required  
  # If you remove the flag 'composer install --ignore-platform-reqs\`  
  # composer will require php-zip to be installed. It appers that  
  # this isn't currently needed, so we are removing this from CircleCI  
  # to save 30 seconds of build time. The php-zip package isn't currently  
  # used by anything. If it ever does need to be used again, this can be  
  # uncommented.  

  #- run:  
  #   name: Install PHP libzip-dev  
  #   command: sudo apt-get install -y libzip-dev  

  #- run:  
  #   name: Install zip package for PHP  
  #   command: sudo docker-php-ext-install zip  

  - run:  
     name: Setup Laravel testing environment variables for CircleCI test  
     command: cp .env.testing .env  

  - run:  
     name: Update composer to latest version  
     command: composer self-update  

  - restore\_cache:  
      keys:  
        - composer-v1-{{ checksum "composer.json" }}  
        - composer-v1-  
  - run: composer install -n --prefer-dist --ignore-platform-reqs  
  - save\_cache:  
      key: composer-v1-{{ checksum "composer.json" }}  
      paths:  
        - vendor  

  - restore\_cache:  
      key: dependency-cache-{{ checksum "package.json" }}  
  - run:  
      name: Install NodeJS Packages  
      command: npm install  
  - save\_cache:  
      key: dependency-cache-{{ checksum "package.json" }}  
      paths:  
        - ./node\_modules  

  - run:  
     name: Create SQLite Database  
     command: touch database/database.sqlite  

  - run:  
     name: Migrate Laravel Database  
     command: php artisan migrate --env=testing --force  

  - run:  
     name: Compile Javascript & CSS for Browser Testing  
     command: npm run production  

  - run:  
     name: Start Chrome Driver  
     command: ./vendor/laravel/dusk/bin/chromedriver-linux  
     background: true  

  - run:  
     name: Run Laravel Server  
     command: php artisan serve  
     background: true  

  - run:  
     name: Test 1 - Run Phpunit for Server-Side HTTP Requests & PHP Unit Testing  
     command: vendor/bin/phpunit  

  - run:  
     name: Test 2 - Run Laravel Desk for Browser Testing  
     command: php artisan dusk