As developers, we lose a lot of benefits by testing after the fact.
Various guides exist on how to do this in Laravel, but all the ones I found (this and this) worked only up to Laravel 8. The reason is that in v9 the Swift Mailer was no longer supported in favor of Symfony Mailer. The Laravel docs show how to write ...
You just have to try Rector. Heck, let the tests break, just run it.
Removing unreachable and redundant code will benefit you massively over time. There's a tool to do this automatically for you.
Rector has a catalog of refactorings ready for us to consume and expand upon.
The promise is simple: you install and run the package, you get instant automated upgrades and refactorings.
