We join a fair number of projects, and we often help teams bring their project up to our standard. This means bringing a lot of the same small pieces from project to project.
In the latest episode of the No Compromises podcast, we rethink our “project standard” repo. Instead of a full Laravel skeleton, we propose a composable library of tool-specific, versioned configs (PHPUnit, Docker, etc.).
We walk through the benefits for greenfield and legacy work, open questions about test organization, and how this approach scales as tools evolve.
- (00:00) - Why we keep our tooling current
- (00:15) - The “project standard” repo is aging
- (01:30) - Reference guide vs installable skeleton
- (02:30) - Supporting old and new stacks (versions, tags)
- (03:30) - Pivot: organize by tool and version, not app
- (04:30) - Example plan: folders for PHPUnit 11/12 (and beyond)
- (05:15) - What belongs where? Tests, traits, and context
- (10:00) - Docker-first thinking; where Horizon config lives
- (11:15) - Open questions: PHPUnit vs Pest vs “testing” folder
- (12:15) - Takeaway: evolve the repo as the tools evolve
- (12:45) - Silly bit
Want help making your project as organized as one of our projects?
Episode 137
