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PHP Laravel code static analysis tool

Hi community!

Could you share your opportunity with code static analysis tools? Pros and cons

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Here you go:

Pros

  • Check your code without actually running it
  • Fewer bugs in your code, because the type is already checked
  • Makes it easier to keep the same code style in a team of developers
  • PHPStan or Larastan are very well developed and give a lot of good support so far

Cons

  • You get a lot of warnings that are not actual errors but have something to do with configuration or the limitations of the static analysis tool
  • You need to run the static analysis tool on every change of the codebase (every pull request), it might get slow
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