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Phabricator vs PHPStan: What are the differences?
What is Phabricator? Open Source, Software Development Platform. Phabricator is a collection of open source web applications that help software companies build better software.
What is PHPStan? PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!. It focuses on finding errors in your code without actually running it. It catches whole classes of bugs even before you write tests for the code. It moves PHP closer to compiled languages in the sense that the correctness of each line of the code can be checked before you run the actual line.
Phabricator and PHPStan can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.
Some of the features offered by Phabricator are:
- reviewing code before it hits master
- auditing code after it hits master
- hosting Git/Hg/SVN repositories
On the other hand, PHPStan provides the following key features:
- Static Analysis Tool
- Focuses on finding errors in your code without actually running it
- Extensible
PHPStan is an open source tool with 7.35K GitHub stars and 535 GitHub forks. Here's a link to PHPStan's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Phabricator
- Open Source33
- Code Review29
- Supports Git/Hg/SVN25
- Bug Tracking18
- Audit Source Code17
- Unlimited Repo Support11
- Software Engineering Platform10
- Super fast task creation10
- Flexible Project Management9
- Project Management8
- Self hosted5
- Building Better Software4
- Best Integration with Gitlab2
- Complete set for collaborating on software development2
- Powerful, Complete, Fast, Reliable and Open Source1
- Straightforward code review process1
- Workflow1
- Very effective system, does all PM & code org needed1