Static analysis is a powerful tool that examines your code without actually running it, catching bugs and type mismatches before they reach production. For PHP developers, PHPStan has become the go-to solution, and Laravel developers often use Larastan - a wrapper that adds Laravel-specific understanding to PHPStan. In this post, I'll share how I'm using PHPStan's type aliases feature to make validation rule typehints more readable and maintainable in our Laravel application. What is static a...
