GrumPHP VS Deptrac

GrumPHP: A PHP code-quality tool.

Depends on what you mean by plugin, but a GrumPHP is a great tool. It registers a pre-commit git hook that runs whatever quality tools you've configured every time someone commits. If one of the checks fail, the commit is aborted. It's very easy to install and configure.

sounds like you heard of Grumphp

Of course, in this simple way, you will need run the command before commits to ensure a correct code style. We can improve this we can to use some pre-commit hook, like a grumphp https://github.com/phpro/grumphp.

How does this compare to existing tools like GrumPHP or Captain Hook? Why should I use it instead?

Are you aware of GrumPHP?

I use grumphp to run phplint, phpstan, Easy coding standard (includes php-cs fixer) and phpunit. All four will automatically run before every commit, stopping any 'below standard' code from being committed. Example config file

like valplet said: https://github.com/phpro/grumphp But also: https://styleci.io/ integrates nicely with git For client side code formatting check: https://prettier.io/

Deptrac

Deptrac: Keep your architecture clean.

So far I've found some tools which I could piece together to accomplish enforcing module boundaries, probably run as part of an automated github action. - https://github.com/qossmic/deptrac Uses YAML to define any boundary, you can also use @internal to hide implementation classes. Seems like a good way to achieve what I want.

How about https://qossmic.github.io/deptrac/ ?

>I wonder: Is automatic DI even helpful? You save some lines of boilerplate but sacrifice control over the initialization-order and get a flat, messy, implicit dependency graph

Initialization order doesn't matter if your services are stateless. At least in our codebase, all of them are stateless, as it greatly simplifies reasoning about concurrent code (both in-process and between servers). Yes, it's easy to end up with a very a convoluted dependency graph under the hood, but I don't think it's a problem you really should care about. I mean, your code most likely already compiles to a very convoluted mess of machine code under the hood (with all the optimizations, ABI quirks etc.) and I doubt it matters to you much, as long as it does its job well and doesn't hinder your productivity.

If you are talking about messy dependency graphs from the architectural standpoint (someone can easily add a dependency in the constructor without thinking about the consequences), we use deptrac for our PHP monolith which can validate your architecture is clean at build time [0]

However, for our microservices written in Go, we decided to use manual DI to stimulate developers to prefer simpler design, otherwise our microservices could quickly turn to monoliths again.

[0] https://github.com/qossmic/deptrac

Deptrac is a static code analysis tool for PHP that helps you communicate, visualize and enforce architectural decisions in your projects.