laravel-code-style VS coding-standard

You don‘t need to configure all these rulesets for phpcsfixer. Just use some presets and add/diable rules if it does not fit your style or use the laravel preset: https://github.com/matt-allan/laravel-code-style

If you go through the imports in the config/insights.php file, you'll see that it mostly uses rules from NunoMaduro\PhpInsights and SlevomatCodingStandard\Sniffs. The former is PHP Insight's in-house insights and the latter is the sniffs from the Slevomat coding standard. In most cases, you'll only ever reach for those two.

However, you can get cognitive complexity in phpcs with the slevomat ruleset. This ruleset is used as a base for the Doctrine coding standard.

I think you can use the Slevomat Coding Standards to solve both issues.

I also make heavy use of Codesniffer with PSR12 as a base and a load of the rules from https://github.com/slevomat/coding-standard - learning how to use Codesniffer and setting up a comprehensive coding standard can be incredibly helpful when working as part of a team.

You should check out https://github.com/slevomat/coding-standard for some very useful additional rules.

no need for muscle memory, there's a phpcs rule for that 🙂

Codesniffer. Though the requirements may differ between projects I typically use PSR12 as a starting point, plus disallowing long array syntax, enforcing a need for DocBlocks, and a few others. I find https://github.com/slevomat/coding-standard is also a good source of useful sniffs.

Well, as we have this phpcs rule in our coding standard, it is forbidden (for us) 😉 Maybe, forbidden is not a good word, though.