Testing Yii2 on Gitpod

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Hi everyone,

For those interested with testing on reproducible environnement, Yii2 is playing nice on Gitpod, here a quick example based on basic-project with a full testing stack (unit, functional, acceptance) including some fixtures to test with and a simple pipeline (for build & test) and code coverage generation.

You’ll be having a full env with root access, pre-configured docker image, mysql db, embedded browser and much more…

If you’re looking for a quick starting travis script you can use this example:

I hope everything is documented in README, if you want to know more aout Gitpod head over the docs on their website

Good luck!

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@samdark How about integrating a default .gitpod.yml file in a newly Yii3 created app?

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Is gitpod a standard feature of gitlab?

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Well, I don’t think it’s a standard feature, however; it supports Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket with free (50hours/month) tier for open source projects, I think it’s better to start with default gitlab-ci.yml and a simple pipeline encouraging DevOps best practices?

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Maybe but the thing is that there are way too many ways the project source code may be hosted:

  • Just a private git with Jenkins.
  • Just a private git with TeamCity.
  • GitHub with its actions.
  • GitLab with its pipelines.
  • Self-hosted GitLab.
  • BitBucket with its pipelines.
  • Any of these with TravisCI.
  • Any of these with CircleCI.
  • Any of these with Scrutinizer piplines.
  • etc.

Supporting all these is too much. Preferring one we don’t actually use (our code is at GitHub and uses its pipelines) isn’t a good idea as well.

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Agree, since there is no standard for now, I suggest to stick to the most used as the default one, based on the current market share:
cloud-host-provider-market-share
Original source: What is the best git repository service - GitHub, gitlab, Bitbucket or some other? - Quora
The other options could be optional arguments when creating a new app, something defaults to: --source-host=github [ --ci=travis-ci ], encouraging good practice in the ecosystem (plugins, modules…), for longer LTS and community engagement, of course if that fits with the roadmap of Yii3 and the available community effort?

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It’s OK to have examples as wiki articles at least. Here: Wiki | Yii PHP Framework

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