phpinsights VS Deptrac

PHP Insights is a code quality analysis tool that checks for code quality, coding style, complexity, and architecture. Just like Pint, it's also opinionated, so you'll have to customize it to fit your needs.

PHP Insights is a static analysis tool of your code directly from your terminal. By running a single command it displays the Quality of Code, Complexity of Code, Architecture and Coding Style.

PHP Insights

https://github.com/nunomaduro/phpinsights.

PHP Insights: Instant PHP quality checks from your console

But there are no similar tools. Here would be the issue, where this problem is discussed. https://github.com/nunomaduro/phpinsights/issues/445

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.