Adding colors to PEST on Github actions

After a few months of writing tests using PEST I always wondered why I was seeing tests output with colors on my local but plain white on Github Actions, it felt so bland.

Even having colors=”true” on phpunit.xml didn’t do the trick, every test would return the following:

Luckily, the solution is simple!

You just need to add a simple argument on your .yml when you call
php artisan test, which is –colors=always, ex:

- name: Execute tests
        run: php artisan test --colors=always

This will give an output as follow:

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César.