You’d think a senior developer, especially in Laravel and Livewire, wouldn’t need help, right? Like, aren’t they the gurus who glide through code without breaking a sweat? Turns out… even seniors need a hand sometimes. Here’s why every Laravel senior could use another senior in their life—and maybe a few good laughs along the way.
Let me tell you, this week has been a rollercoaster ride. 🎢
As a developer, life was simple. Write code, fix bugs, deploy. Rinse and repeat. But somewhere along the way, I leveled up—not in a video game sense (although I wish)—but to something called a “senior manager with developer responsibilities.”
The tests I write are usually written in Pest, PHPUnit, or Jest. I also usually commit them to a code repository - but not all automated tests should be committed. I wrote what I consider to be an automated test that was a "single-use test". It served its purpose and it will forever be in my heart, but not in my repository.
