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Testing PayPal in Laravel (PHPUnit & Dusk)

In this article, I’ll show you how you can go about testing…

Yes, there is a communication between controllers, but it’s basically simulating an HTTP request.

There are some big cons to this approach:

1. Middlewares on API endpoint won’t be executed (for example rate-limiting)
2. You may have some caching in front of your API…

The danger of Laravel’s request() helper

The request() helper (or Request facade) is one of the options to get to the Request object in Laravel. Another one is via dependency injection. Lately, the request() helper is quickly gaining momentum and seeing greater usages throughout the Laravel…