18 April, 2022

Smart Error Checking and Refactoring Development Tool for Laravel

Programing Coderfunda April 18, 2022 Laravel, Packages No comments

Microscope is a Laravel development tool that includes smart checks to discover errors related to your applications. The highlight features according to the package's readme include:

It is created to be smarter than phpstorm and other IDEs in finding errors.
It is created to understand laravel run-time and magic.
It does not show you false errors, all the errors are really errors.
Even If you have written a lot of tests for your app, you may still need this.
It can refactor your code, by applying early returns automatically.
It is written from scratch to yield the maximum performance possible.

The package includes over seventeen different checks and a special command to run all of them. These commands will help you discover bugs and pitfalls in applications that might not have very many tests; however, this package can also be helpful for apps with many test cases.

This package contains some useful commands that will help you avoid common pitfalls, such as:

Avoid queries in Laravel Blade templates
Detects "bad practices", such as env() calls outside of configuration files
It can automatically flatten functions and loops by applying the early return rule
It can check your view() and View::make() calls and report if they refer to an incorrect/missing files
Validates event handler registration and gate policies/definitions