GitHub's 2000 minutes per month of free usage of GitHub Actions is usually enough to handle light workflows. However, as more tech is run automatically, we are forced to upgrade to a paid plan or optimize our workflows. Currently, I am running Rector...
A nice refactoring I've learned recently is to utilize types in conditionals. For years I’ve been doing if (!empty($posts)), but Rector, a tool to automatically refactor code, changed that to if ($posts === []). The main advantage of using $posts ===...
Laravel 10 is making the headlines these days. However, many apps are stuck in older versions, or at least still use the syntax and methods of older releases. One of the most significant changes introduced in Laravel 9 is the syntax for accessors and...
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.
