7 Laravel Packages to Improve Coding Standards and Reduce Bugs

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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