README

What's this?

A little package to try to standardize a set of development tools for PHP projects. Probably not of interest to anyone who isn't working on projects with me.

Including this package as a dev-dependency gets you:

• PHPUnit for testing.
• Psalm for static analysis.
• PHPStan for another flavor of static analysis.
• PHP_CodeSniffer for linting
• Roave Security Advisories to help avoid depending on packages with vulnerabilities.

Along with config files for each.

Motivation

The key motivation is to be able to share configurations for things like psalm, php_cs, and phpunit between my projects, and keep things largely in sync.

Assumptions

This package assumes your code is in src/ and your tests are in tests/. It further assumes that you want psalm and phpcs to be run on your test sources.

Usage

Set minimum-stability:

# Because this package includes roave/security-advisories which, by design,
# will never have a stable release:
composer config minimum-stability dev

# you'll almost certainly also want to do:
composer config prefer-stable true    

Add this package a dev-dependency:

composer install --dev timdev/devtools

Run the setup script which will copy the three config files into your project root:

vendor/bin/devtools-setup

Psalm is configured to use a baseline file, and will complain if there isn't one. If you project does not already have a psalm-baseline.xml file in its root directory, devtools-setup will install an empty baseline file for you, so that psalm will run without error.

Local Tweaks

Do not make changes to any of the .xml.dist files installed by devtools-setup. Your changes will be overwritten during an upgrade. Instead, you should add non-.dist versions.

Upgrading

Since the main point of this package is to manage local configuration for various tools, you should re-run vendor/bin/devtools-setup after upgrading this package.

Inspiration

I created this package after experimenting with ramsey/devtools, which is an incredibly cool thing. But I wanted something more focused on our needs at TimDev Software.