7 Laravel Packages to Improve Coding Standards and Reduce Bugs

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  1. larastan

    ⚗️ Adds code analysis to Laravel improving developer productivity and code quality.

    Larastan is a Coding Standards Fixer tool, It's a PHPStan wrapper for Laravel. Larastan focuses on finding errors in your code. It catches whole classes of bugs even before you write tests for the code.

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  3. PHP Code Sniffer

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

    PHP CodeSniffer is also a coding standard tool. It tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.

  4. phan

    Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false-positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness.

    Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness.

  5. phpinspectionsea

    A Static Code Analyzer for PHP (a PhpStorm/Idea Plugin)

    PHP Inspections is a static code analyzer and code review tool for PhpStorm IDE.

  6. phpinsights

    🔰 Instant PHP quality checks from your console

    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.

  7. Pest

    Pest is an elegant PHP testing Framework with a focus on simplicity, meticulously designed to bring back the joy of testing in PHP.

    Pest is an elegant PHP Testing Framework with a focus on simplicity. It has a good interface to display test results and easily understandable APIs to write tests.

  8. pint

    Laravel Pint is an opinionated PHP code style fixer for minimalists.

    Laravel Pint is an opinionated PHP code style fixer for minimalists. Pint is built on top of PHP-CS-Fixer and makes it simple to ensure that your code style stays clean and consistent. Pint is a new addition to the Laravel framework.

  9. PHP CS Fixer

    A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

    Laravel Pint is an opinionated PHP code style fixer for minimalists. Pint is built on top of PHP-CS-Fixer and makes it simple to ensure that your code style stays clean and consistent. Pint is a new addition to the Laravel framework.

  10. PHPStan

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

    Larastan is a Coding Standards Fixer tool, It's a PHPStan wrapper for Laravel. Larastan focuses on finding errors in your code. It catches whole classes of bugs even before you write tests for the code.

  11. Laravel

    Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

    As we all know, the Laravel community is growing rapidly daily, and the packages developed for Laravel are also increasing. We will look into a few packages in this article to improve PHP coding standards and automate some tasks that were done manually.

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