dump-x vs ray

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dump-x		ray
	Project
1	Mentions	16
0	Stars	545
-	Growth	1.1%
0.0	Activity	8.3
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
PHP	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

dump-x

Posts with mentions or reviews of dump-x. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

[Package] Loop dumps without creating seperate loops
1 project | /r/laravel | 29 Oct 2021

ray

Posts with mentions or reviews of ray. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.

How to Debug PHP and Laravel Code?
1 project | /r/laravel | 8 Jul 2023

I'm using Ray (https://myray.app/) from spatie, it's easy to install (composer) and is doing all I need :)
Software Developer Mac Apps
44 projects | /r/macapps | 17 May 2023

https://myray.app/ (when not xdebugging)
How do I get xDebug to chill on remote?
3 projects | /r/laravel | 22 Oct 2022

Similar but not free: https://myray.app
I hate PHP development
4 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 17 Aug 2022
What’s your typical list of paid software and services you use as a Laravel developer?
10 projects | /r/laravel | 30 Jul 2022
Using `dd` and `dump` in any PHP file on your system
6 projects | /r/PHP | 4 Mar 2022

Here is link number 1 - Previous text "Ray"
senior developers are amateurs (source in comments)
1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 26 Jan 2022

testimonials gone wrong at myray.app
ray VS xr - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 26 Jan 2022
Announcing x-ray
5 projects | dev.to | 17 Sep 2021

I'm proud to announce the initial release of the spatie/x-ray package for Ray. The x-ray package provides a command-line utility that finds and displays all calls to ray(), rd(), and other functions from the spatie/ray family of packages. Currently, it only supports PHP projects.
Speed up migrations when running Laravel tests
1 project | dev.to | 25 Aug 2021

This command generates a file in database/schema and deletes all my migration files. Before squashing the migrations, it was taking 11.031 seconds according to well placed Ray call in the RefreshDatabase trait:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dump-x and ray you can also consider the following projects:

ray-proxy - a proxy for the Ray app to allow debugging of payloads

python-devtools - Dev tools for python

backtrace - A better backtrace

laravel-ray - Debug with Ray to fix problems faster in Laravel apps

app - The old version of Buggregator, which uses Laravel framework, is no longer being actively developed. The new beta version, built with Spiral framework, is now available at https://github.com/buggregator/spiral-app and offers significant improvements in performance and stability, as well as a lighter docker image size of around 300mb.

php-console-extension

x-ray - Scan source code for calls to ray() and related calls.

web-frameworks - Which is the fastest web framework?

PySnooper - Never use print for debugging again

FrameworkBenchmarks - Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

icecream - 🍦 Never use print() to debug again.

code-snippets - Easily create and work with code snippets from PHP