Writing declarative PHP
– youtu.be - submitted by Andrew Schmelyun
What declarative programming is, and how to include more of it in your PHP code base.
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Posts tagged with code quality
A Composer tool to show unused Composer dependencies
When working in a big repository, you sometimes lose track of your required Composer packages. There may be so many packages you can't be sure if they are actually used or not. This tool can help to determine if you really are using a package.
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Why working code is not enough? Write Better Laravel, Part 2
– arunas.dev - submitted by Arunas
You'll learn the difference between "tactical" and "strategic" programming, and why choosing the right approach is important in the long run.
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Can PHPStan find Dead Public Methods?
Thomas Votruba explains how you can go about this.
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What is complexity? Write Better Laravel, Part 1
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Before we learn strategies for better software design, we must understand our enemy - complexity. Let’s define complexity, how to spot it, and what causes it.
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Why DRY is the most over-rated programming principle
DRY is just like every other principle out there - it has its place, but it's best taken in moderation.
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Add Interfaces to Laravel to Increase Code Readability and Verbosity
Personally I don't know if this is a good practice, but you (and future me) might like it.
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Using callbacks to prevent code duplication
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
DRY up code by deferring specifics to a callback.
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Improve Passing Booleans in PHP original
Passing booleans to a method can be code smell, as it is not clear what a boolean does by reading the calling code.
Clean Coders Hate What Happens to Your Code When You Use These Enterprise Programming Tricks
This talk by Kevlin Henney looks at how a handful of coding habits, design practices and assumptions can systematically balloon code and compound its accidental complexity.
Code that breathes original
Have you ever needed to maintain a project that wasn't yours? A project that, when you first opened it, gave you chills down your spine? Even without reading the code in detail, you could already tell it was a mess.
Exceptional Naming
Kevlin Henney makes the case for not suffixing class names, or files with the type of object it contains.
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How we're using static analysis to improve our codebase
A static analyzer helps you to find bugs in your code without even running it. Popular static analyzers for PHP are Psalm and PHPStan. In this post, we're going to look at what such a static analyzer can find in a two-year-old codebase.
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The benefits of writing tests
I've been creating web applications for over 15 years now. It's only in the last five years that I've learned how to test an application automatically. I can safely say that there is no other technique that has improved the quality of my code more.
Let's go over what a test is and all the benefits it provides.
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Clever vs insightful code
We talk about cleverness as if it’s Just Bad, such as “clever code is harder to debug”. That’s going too far. Cleverness can lead to faster, safer, even clearer code.
Read more [www.hillelwayne.com]
A trick to improve your class names original
Sometimes it is not clear what the responsibility of a certain class is. This can be solved by adding a suffix to the class name.
The magic of dedicated exception classes original
You can make your code more readable by moving all your exception messages to dedicated classes. We using this technique in all our projects and packages.
Better Laravel / PHP Code: five guidelines from Spatie
YouTube star Povilas Korop shares and discusses five rules from our guidelines.
On Exactitude in Technical Debt
Technical debt is not simply a measure of the specific work needed to repay the debt; it is the additional time and effort added to all past, present, and future work that comes from having the debt in the first place.
Read more [www.oreilly.com]