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Reek vs PHP CodeSniffer: What are the differences?
Developers describe Reek as "Code smell detector for Ruby". Reek is a tool that examines Ruby classes, modules, and methods and reports any Code Smells it finds. On the other hand, PHP CodeSniffer is detailed as "A library that detects PHP, CSS and JS coding standard violations". It tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards. It is an essential development tool that ensures your code remains clean and consistent.
Reek and PHP CodeSniffer can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.
Reek and PHP CodeSniffer are both open source tools. It seems that PHP CodeSniffer with 7.55K GitHub stars and 1.22K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Reek with 3.3K GitHub stars and 237 GitHub forks.