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shopify-app-integration-testing

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Writing application-level tests for a Laravel Shopify app that uses kyon147/laravel-shopify.

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When to use

You are writing PHPUnit, Pest, or HTTP tests in your Laravel application (not in the package repo) that exercise routes or services integrated with kyon147/laravel-shopify.

What to test

  • Your routes behind verify.shopify, billable, or other package middleware: use Laravel’s HTTP testing helpers, acting as the authenticated shop user/model your app uses, and set session or headers the middleware expects per your app’s auth mode.
  • Your controllers, jobs, and listeners that react to Shopify-related events or stored shop state.

Faking Shopify and HTTP

  • Fake HTTP to Shopify at your application boundary — e.g. Http::fake() for outgoing Admin API calls, or test doubles for services you own — instead of relying on JSON fixtures from the package’s internal test suite (those exist only for developing laravel-shopify itself).
  • Keep tests deterministic: stub time if you assert token expiry windows.

Common pitfalls

  • APP_URL mismatch with route generation or redirect assertions in tests.
  • Shop domain / shop record missing on the user model when middleware expects it.
  • APP_KEY missing or changing between runs when encrypted casts or session encryption affect outcomes.

Do / Don’t

  • Do prefer testing your app’s public HTTP surface and job dispatch over reaching into vendor classes.
  • Don’t copy package-internal fixture files into your app unless you are explicitly mirroring a contract you own; prefer fakes at the HTTP client or service level.