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Rubén Rubio on September 22, 2021

Introduction We want the new project we are starting at Filmin to be robust. Therefore, besides adopting good coding practices, we check...

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Benjamin Delespierre • Sep 22 '21 • Edited

And you? Do you know any interesting tool that is not in this list?

Yes. I would suggest

thephpleague/skeleton to kickstart OSS projects on GitHub in 3 minutes
Mockery is my favorite mocking library
Behat writes your tests for you from your specs
PHPMD is old, not obsolete.
Faker is the best fake data generator out there

You've already provided a ton of excellent tools. Some I already use everyday. Some I will discover RIGHT NOW OMG LOOKS SOOOO COOOOOOOL

BTW I talk a lot about code quality, so come and subscribe 😎

tyler36 • Sep 27 '21 • Edited

Just a heads up.

fzaninotto/Faker has been sunsetted, so development has stopped.

I recommend using FakerPHP which an attempt at maintaining and developing the code. It should be a drop-in replacement, I can't think of any changes I've had to made but YMMV.

It only support PHP >7.1.

EDIT: formatting

Rubén Rubio • Sep 27 '21

Thank you for your recommendation!

Rubén Rubio • Sep 23 '21

Thank you for your suggestions!

Andreas Frömer • Sep 23 '21

Author of composer-unused here. Thanks for listing along side those awesome other libraries, feeling honored 💪

Rubén Rubio • Sep 24 '21

Thank you for your work! We have been using your library for some months and it is really useful!

Andreas Frömer • Sep 25 '21

Thanks, much appreciated 🙏

Andrii Podanenko • Sep 23 '21

Thank you

Nicolas Del castillo • Sep 27 '21

Thanks for the articles!

Marcelo Roberto • Sep 23 '21

Fantastic!!! Thanks for shared!!!!

Rubén Rubio • Sep 23 '21

Thank you!