How to Build and Distribute Beautiful Command-Line Applications with PHP and Composer

• valet

  10 2,466 8.4 PHP

  A more enjoyable local development experience for Mac. (by laravel)

  

Valet

• Psalm

  45 5,434 9.9 PHP

  A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications

  

Psalm

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• PHPStan

  59 12,536 9.9 PHP

  PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!

  

PHPStan

• phpinsights

  7 5,191 5.7 PHP

  🔰 Instant PHP quality checks from your console

PHP Insights

• PHP CS Fixer

  41 12,543 9.8 PHP

  A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

  

PHP CS Fixer

• PHP Code Sniffer

  47 10,603 6.8 PHP

  PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.

  

PHP_CodeSniffer

• Rector

  112 8,207 9.9 PHP

  Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code

  

Rector

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• takeout

  5 1,570 6.4 PHP

  Docker-based development-only dependency manager. macOS, Linux, and WSL2-only and installs via PHP's Composer... for now.

  

Takeout

• minicli

  12 1,007 7.4 PHP

  A minimalist framework for command-line applications in PHP

  

We won't use specialised frameworks like Minicli or Laravel Zero because the goal is not so much to focus on features but to better understand the development, testing, and distribution phases of command-line programs.

• php-cli-demo

  1 4 0.0 PHP

  PHP command-line tool demonstration

Make sure it behaves as you would expect – if it doesn't, go back a few steps or take a look at the tutorial's repository to check if you missed something.

• Symfony

  151 29,294 10.0 PHP

  The Symfony PHP framework

  

Our class extends Symfony Console's Command class and overwrites some of its static properties. $defaultName and $defaultDescription are the command's name and description, which will both appear in the application's menu. The former will also allow us to invoke the command in the terminal later on.

• termwind

  10 2,161 6.6 PHP

  🍃 In short, it's like Tailwind CSS, but for the PHP command-line applications.

Concerning styling, if you need to push the appearance of your console program a bit further, you might want to take a look at Termwind, a promising new framework described as "Tailwind CSS, but for PHP command-line applications".

• kobwise

  1 9 0.0 PHP

  Convert your Kobo annotations to Readwise highlights

Think of repetitive tasks that you perform regularly, and that could be automated away without the need of a full-blown website. I, for instance, grew tired of having to manually import my Kobo annotations to Readwise, so came up with a tool to make the conversion easier.

• semver

  720 7,020 2.3

  Semantic Versioning Specification

  

If you're wondering why I didn't list 8.1, that's because as per the rules of Semantic Versioning (semver), ^8.0 covers all versions above or equal to 8.0 but strictly under 9.0, which includes 8.1. If you're like me and tend to forget the rules of semver when you need them, keep this cheatsheet handy and thank me later.

• PHPUnit

  47 19,541 9.9 PHP

  The PHP Unit Testing framework.

We will use PHPUnit as our testing environment – let's instal it as a development dependency:

• Packagist

  61 1,712 9.0 PHP

  Package Repository Website - try https://packagist.com if you need your own -

  

Now head over to packagist.org and create an account (or sign in if you already have one).

• Laravel-Zero

  10 3,559 5.4 PHP

  A PHP framework for console artisans

  

We won't use specialised frameworks like Minicli or Laravel Zero because the goal is not so much to focus on features but to better understand the development, testing, and distribution phases of command-line programs.

• starter-workflows

  260 8,421 8.3 TypeScript

  Accelerating new GitHub Actions workflows

  

Now that we have a test controlling the correct execution of our program, we can use it to ensure the latter's compatibility with a range of PHP versions. Doing so manually would be a bit of a pain, but we can automate the process using GitHub Actions.

• Puts Debuggerer

  3,149 91 5.5 Ruby

  Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

A GitHub account (a free one will do)

• Composer

  191 28,264 9.5 PHP

  Dependency Manager for PHP

  

This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a simple game running in the terminal, using Symfony's Console Component as a bedrock, GitHub Actions for compatibility checking, and Composer for distribution.

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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