Psalm VS clockwork

Psalm is a static analysis tool for PHP. Much like PHPStan is to Larastan, Psalm has a plugin called Laravel Psalm that allows you to easily use it in Laravel projects.

Psalm: A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications. Plugins: boesing/psalm-plugin-stringf: Psalm plugin to provide more details for sprintf, printf, sscanf and fscanf functions. hectorj/safe-php-psalm-plugin: vimeo/psalm plugin for thecodingmachine/safe. marartner/psalm-no-empty: Psalm plugin to detect usage of empty(). marartner/psalm-strict-equality: Psalm plugin to enforce strict equality. psalm/plugin-phpunit: A PHPUnit plugin for Psalm. psalm/plugin-symfony: Psalm Plugin for Symfony. weirdan/doctrine-psalm-plugin: Stubs to let Psalm understand Doctrine better. ghostwriter/psalm-plugin: Provides an ALL-IN-ONE plugin for Psalm

PHP 8 is the best version of PHP yet, and the main reason why it's so good is precisely because it got rid of a huge amount of ugly, legacy behavior.

Upgrading a codebase to PHP 8 is not an insurmountable task, I've upgraded our 1 million SLOC codebase at work in just a few weeks, with the help of tools like https://psalm.dev and our own strict coding standard.

Psalm is a static analysis tool specifically designed for PHP. It performs advanced type inference and checks for various types of errors, including type errors, undefined variables, incorrect function calls, and more. It provides comprehensive code analysis and helps improve code quality and maintainability. Documentation: You can find more information about Psalm, including installation instructions and usage details, in the official repository: Psalm Repository

vimeo/psalm

Static analysis - Psalm .

Either Clockwork or Debugbar.

https://underground.works/clockwork/ is super easy to set up and really good.

Get clockwork (https://github.com/itsgoingd/clockwork) so you can understand where in (or outside) your application you are getting an issue.

Give https://github.com/itsgoingd/clockwork a go - I made the switch a long time ago, haven't look back

90% of what I do is Laravel work and for every project, I use Clockwork. It puts all of the stuff below into a tab in Chrome's DevTools.

Funny timing — I just spent 4 hours this morning comparing Xdebug, Blackfire, and New Relic.

After feeling like my SaaS application is starting to hit some scaling bottlenecks, I had a play with all 3 services to try and get some insight for a real-world application.

A brief summary:

- Xdebug: Slow. Fiddly to set up. Fine for a development environment and day-to-day profiling, but things like Clockwork[0] are, practically speaking, far more insightful.

- Blackfire: Terrible UX. Difficult setup process. Their free plan is almost impossible to evaluate as it only shows you glorified stack traces, most of which are littered with vendor and framework files. I didn’t want to commit to paying a full year of their standard plan (no monthly payment unless options, unless you go for the highest tiers), so I happily uninstalled and moved on.

- New Relic: wow… one command and a server reboot later, and I’m seeing performance profiling, consolidated dashboards, error logging, MariaDB and Redis queries, frontend performance, and server capacities - with REAL data, on production! I’m very, very impressed. And it’s free for a single user…?!

[0] Clockwork: https://underground.works/clockwork/

Clockwork is a must-have for identifying hidden performance bottlenecks. It’s like DebugBar, but on steroids. Also seems to be kinda under-the-radar, it should definitely be more widely known :)

You might want to have a look at clockwork, it has a query logger and so much more.