Editor Setup

An editor plugin can enhance your experience when working with Pest. While most editors offer built-in support for Pest, a dedicated plugin adds helpful functionality on top of your editor, streamlining your workflow.

Currently, the PhpStorm team at JetBrains maintains the Pest plugin for PhpStorm, which has been installed by default since PhpStorm 2023.3.

PhpStorm https://github.com/pestphp/pest-intellij

1,212,525 downloads

If you do not use PhpStorm, you may wish to try one of the community-maintained plugins below. However, these alternatives may not offer the same experience as the official PhpStorm plugin.

VSCode PHPUnit TestExplorer https://github.com/recca0120/vscode-phpunit

290,183 downloads

VSCode https://github.com/m1guelpf/better-pest

59,637 downloads

VSCode Snippets https://github.com/dansysanalyst/pest-snippets

42,960 downloads

Neovim (via Neotest) https://github.com/V13Axel/neotest-pest

Once the installation process is complete and your editor is ready, you may learn more about how to write tests by visiting the next section of the documentation: Writing Tests →