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Ever deployed code that looked perfectly fine, only to discover type errors crashing your app in production? Modern PHP gives us powerful tools to catch these bugs before they ever reach users. In this episode of Laravel In Practice, I'll show you how to use Larastan, a static analysis tool built on PHPStan, to find hidden type safety issues in your Laravel code.
You'll learn how to install and configure Larastan for your Laravel application, interpret analysis errors, and add the right type hints and PHPDoc annotations to resolve them. We'll walk through real examples of bugs that would slip past traditional testing but get caught immediately by static analysis.
We'll also set up a streamlined workflow by integrating Larastan into your Composer scripts, making it easy to run comprehensive code checks alongside your tests. By the end, you'll have a safety net that catches type mismatches, undefined methods, and potential null pointer exceptions before they become production incidents.
This episode continues our Code Quality series, building on the Rector PHP techniques from Episode 12. While Rector modernizes your code automatically, Larastan ensures that modern code is actually type safe and production ready.
This episode is sponsored by CodeRabbit; Smart CLI Reviews act as quality gates for Codex, Claude Code, Gemini, and you.
