Rector fireside chat - PHPMiNDS meetup
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This document summarizes a fireside chat about the Rector tool for refactoring PHP code. It introduces Rector as a PHP command line tool that can understand code, improve entire codebases at once, and be fine-tuned or extended for specific needs. Rector can help with continuous improvement, code coaching, and the future of refactoring PHP applications without creating technical debt from migrations. The chat then transitions to a demo by Tomas and discusses a book about how to use and extend Rector.
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Rector fireside chat - PHPMiNDS meetup
- 1. A Fireside Chat about Rector
- 2. A Fireside Chat about Rector
- 3. Programm ● Introduction to Rector - Matthias ● Demo time - Tomas ● Q & A - You ● About the book - Matthias
- 4. Fireside chat? The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt [...] [He] spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about recovery from the Great Depression, [...]
- 5. Legacy code
- 6. Legacy code How much pain will you put up with?!
- 7. At some point we’d like to Migrate from Zend 1 to Symfony 5
- 8. At some point we’d like to Go from Active Record to Data Mapper
- 9. At some point we’d like to Use PHP 8 attributes instead of Doctrine annotations
- 10. At some point we’d like to Mark classes as final if they aren’t extended
- 11. At some point we’d like to Introduce strict types everywhere...
- 12. But... ● Too much work (development & testing) ● Priority is always on features ● For now: just keep things running
- 13. However 1 ● Broken windows ● Halfway migrations ● Lack of innovation ● (FO)MO ● Hiring is hard
- 14. However 2 ● Change is scary ● Change becomes slow
- 15. What would you like to do? We’ll tell you later if Rector can do it
- 16. What is Rector? ● A PHP command-line tool ● Powered by PHPParser and PHPStan ● Created and maintained (mostly) by Tomas s
- 17. What is Rector? ● Understands code ● Improves entire code bases at once ● Can be fine-tuned to improve what you want ● Can be extended by anyone for specific needs
- 18. Continuous Improvement ● Not just one time upgrades ● Once you enable a rule it will keep reinforcing that rule
- 19. CI ● Rules can be checked during the build ● Rules can be applied during the build (Rector as a team member)
- 20. Coaching ● Rector can coach a team to apply best practices ● “Don’t forget to ...” ● “You should do ... instead” ● “We decided to always do ...”
- 21. Coaching ● If code reviewing becomes repetitive, automate it ● (write a Rector rule)
- 23. The Future of Refactoring ● Rector as a Composer plugin ● Free modern standards ● There is no legacy code...
- 24. The Future of Refactoring Well...
- 25. Let’s switch to Tomas now
- 26. The Book
- 27. The Book ● How Rector works ● Its place in the ecosystem ● Extend Rector with custom rules ● Use TDD to safely develop those rules ● Make Rector a contributing team member
- 28. Buy it, support us https://bit.ly/2X76GUw