What is Psalm?
It is a type-checking static analysis tool for PHP that finds bugs humans can miss, and improves code quality. It is designed to be useful on both large legacy codebases and small, modern ones. It can help you prevent the vast majority of type-related runtime errors, and also enables you to take advantage of safe coding patterns popular in other languages.
Psalm is a tool in the Code Review category of a tech stack.
Psalm is an open source tool with 5.4K GitHub stars and 642 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Psalm's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Psalm?
Companies
6 companies reportedly use Psalm in their tech stacks, including Spryker OS, Like Центр, and JazzHR.
Developers
15 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Psalm.
Psalm Integrations
Psalm's Features
- Open-source
- Static analysis tool
- Identify both obvious and hard-to-spot bugs in your code
- Can automatically fix a number of the errors it finds
Psalm Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Psalm?
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Prettier
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TSLint
An extensible static analysis tool that checks TypeScript code for readability, maintainability, and functionality errors. It is widely supported across modern editors & build systems and can be customized with your own lint rules, configurations, and formatters.
SonarQube
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RuboCop
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