Rector VS clockwork

As part of the journey to PHP perfection, you should embrace Rector. It's a amazing, free, and open-source tool for migrations, code quality, type coverage, pushing PHPStan to the highest levels, and yes, it can even auto-fix your existing code! It seamlessly integrates into the CI process, making your development workflow smoother than ever.

Website: https://getrector.com/

If you want a speed boost, there's a tool: https://github.com/rectorphp/rector

Rector can help automating some changes.

Yep... Rector

I'd also recommend taking a look at Rector to help automate some of this.

rector/rector

https://github.com/rectorphp/rector might be useful.

You could give rector a try

If you want to upgdate an old project quickly, I recommend checking out Rector, which, among other uses, can quickly update code from older PHP versions.

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.