Ultimate Formatter for Laravel

Ultimate code formatter for Laravel, taking care of everything: one package that ships Rector and PHP CS Fixer with a shared, opinionated configuration, so every project formats its code the same way.

Installation

composer require --dev adamczykpiotr/laravel-ultimate-formatter

Supports Laravel 11–13 on PHP 8.3+.

Setup

Publish the configs into the project root:

vendor/bin/ultimate-formatter install

The command detects the layout and fills in the paths that exist:

It writes .php-cs-fixer.php, rector.php and .git-blame-ignore-revs. In an application it also publishes config/ultimate-formatter.php. Existing files are skipped unless you pass --force. .git-blame-ignore-revs is never overwritten, since it holds your recorded commits. In an application, Rector skips database/migrations.

Usage

vendor/bin/ultimate-formatter format    # Rector, then PHP CS Fixer
vendor/bin/ultimate-formatter check     # dry run, Rector first; stops at the first pending change (CI)

format --models regenerates model docblocks with laravel-ide-helper first. In a Laravel app the same commands are available as php artisan formatter:install, formatter:format and formatter:check.

Record bulk formatting commits in .git-blame-ignore-revs so blame skips them, and point blame.ignoreRevsFile at that file in your local git config.

Customising

The arguments each command passes to its tools live in config/ultimate-formatter.php. Override a tool's list there, and the tools you leave out keep the package defaults:

return [
    'check' => [
        'php-cs-fixer' => ['fix', '--dry-run', '--diff', '--verbose'],
    ],
];

The generated files are yours to edit. Rules are merged in, not replaced:

// .php-cs-fixer.php
return FixerConfigFactory::create($finder, __DIR__ . '/build/.php-cs-fixer.cache')
    ->setRules([...FixerConfigFactory::rules(), 'yoda_style' => true]);

// rector.php
return RectorConfigFactory::create()
    ->withPaths([__DIR__ . '/src'])
    ->withSkip([SomeRector::class]);

Pre steps

format can run artisan steps before the tools. Turn them on in config/ultimate-formatter.php:

'pre' => [
    'clear-cache' => true, // optimize:clear, so the steps below see the current .env
    'migrate' => true,     // migrate --force, so ide-helper:models documents every column
],

They run in that order, then --models, then Rector and PHP CS Fixer, and the first failing step stops the run. Their arguments live under format.clear-cache and format.migrate. check never runs them.

Rector runs 4 parallel processes by default to stay within container memory limits. Raise it in rector.php with ->withParallel(maxNumberOfProcess: 8) when the machine has room.

What it enforces

• PHP CS Fixer. declare(strict_types=1), next-line braces for classes and methods, ordered imports, and ordered @param/@return/@throws tags.
• Rector. Type declarations, docblock types, and the Laravel quality, collection and type sets matched to the installed Laravel version.
• Docblocks. Every method gets @param/@return tags in line with its signature. Narrower tags such as non-empty-string or list<string> are kept. ?string in a tag becomes string|null.
• Banner comments. A /* | Section | */ banner is always followed by a blank line, via the custom UltimateFormatter/blank_line_after_banner_comment fixer.

Testing

composer test
composer analyse

Changelog

Releases are tagged automatically by semantic-release from the conventional commit titles merged into main. See CHANGELOG for what changed.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.