Loading Laravel Kernel (to load environment variables from file) before reading the application configuration from config/app.php

Author: Alexey Shapilov

src/Codeception/Lib/Connector/Laravel5.php

@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ private function initialize($request = null)
 
         $this->app = $this->kernel = $this->loadApplication();
 
+        $this->app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel')->bootstrap();
+
         // Set the request instance for the application,
         if (is_null($request)) {
             $appConfig = require $this->module->config['project_dir'] . 'config/app.php';
@@ -208,8 +210,6 @@ private function initialize($request = null)
             });
         }
 
-        $this->app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel')->bootstrap();
-
         // Record all triggered events by adding a wildcard event listener
         // Since Laravel 5.4 wildcard event handlers receive the event name as the first argument,
         // but for earlier Laravel versions the firing() method of the event dispatcher should be used