Set up automated test runs with Git hooks

Forgetting to run tests before committing is one of the easiest ways to push broken code to production. A pre-commit hook solves this perfectly by running your test suite automatically.

Create a file at .git/hooks/pre-commit to automatically run your test suite any time there’s a commit.

For a Laravel app, this uses the artisan tool:

#!/bin/bash
php artisan test

# If using Docker Compose
#docker compose exec -T phpfpm php artisan test

Note: docker compose exec tries to allocate a TTY (interactive terminal session) by default,...