diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index a530229..3ab8dd4 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -10,21 +10,47 @@ stages:
 cache:
   key: "$CI_JOB_NAME-$CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG"
 
-composer:
-  stage: preparation
-  script:
-    - composer install --prefer-dist --no-ansi --no-interaction --no-progress --no-scripts --no-suggest
-    - cp .env.example .env
-    - php artisan key:generate
-  artifacts:
-    paths:
-      - vendor/
-      - .env
-    expire_in: 1 days
-    when: always
-  cache:
-    paths:
-      - vendor/
+# This is a basic example for a gem or script which doesn't use
+# services such as redis or postgres
+before_script:
+  # Update packages
+  - apt-get update -yqq
+  # Prep for Node
+  - apt-get install gnupg -yqq
+  # Upgrade to Node 8
+  - curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash -
+  # Install dependencies
+  - apt-get install git nodejs libcurl4-gnutls-dev libicu-dev libmcrypt-dev libvpx-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libxpm-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev libxml2-dev libexpat1-dev libbz2-dev libgmp3-dev libldap2-dev unixodbc-dev libpq-dev libsqlite3-dev libaspell-dev libsnmp-dev libpcre3-dev libtidy-dev -yqq
+  # Install php extensions
+  - docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql curl json intl gd xml zip bz2 opcache
+  # Install & enable Xdebug for code coverage reports
+  - pecl install xdebug
+  - docker-php-ext-enable xdebug
+  # Install Composer and project dependencies.
+  - curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
+  - php composer.phar install
+  # Install Node dependencies.
+  # comment this out if you don't have a node dependency
+  - npm install
+  # Copy over testing configuration.
+  # Don't forget to set the database config in .env.testing correctly
+  # DB_HOST=mysql
+  # DB_DATABASE=project_name
+  # DB_USERNAME=root
+  # DB_PASSWORD=secret
+  - cp .env.testing .env
+  # Run npm build
+  # comment this out if you don't have a frontend build
+  # you can change this to to your frontend building script like
+  # npm run build
+  - npm run dev
+  # Generate an application key. Re-cache.
+  - php artisan key:generate
+  - php artisan config:cache
+  # Run database migrations.
+  - php artisan migrate
+  # Run database seed
+  - php artisan db:seed
 
 yarn:
   stage: preparation