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Developer toolbox library that provides standardized development dependencies and debugging utilities for JBZoo projects on GitHub.

Features

• Enhanced Debugging: Customized Symfony VarDumper configuration optimized for CLI development
• Development Dependencies: Unified package for all necessary JBZoo development tools
• Standardized Toolchain: Consistent development environment across JBZoo ecosystem
• Quality Assurance: Integrated code style checking and testing framework

Installation

composer require --dev jbzoo/toolbox-dev

Key Components

VarDumper Enhancement

Provides an optimized debugging experience with:

• Output redirected to php://stderr to avoid breaking script output
• 16KB string limit for performance
• Classic indentation style for better readability
• UTF-8 encoding support

Development Tools Integration

Includes standardized versions of:

• jbzoo/phpunit - Enhanced PHPUnit testing framework
• jbzoo/codestyle - Comprehensive code quality tools
• jbzoo/markdown - Markdown processing utilities
• symfony/var-dumper - Advanced debugging capabilities
• php-coveralls/php-coveralls - Coverage reporting
• fakerphp/faker - Test data generation

Usage

Development Setup

make update    # Install/update all dependencies

Testing and Quality Assurance

make test      # Run PHPUnit tests
make test-all  # Run tests and code style checks
make codestyle # Run all code quality tools

Debugging

The VarDumper configuration is automatically loaded, enhancing the dump() function:

// Enhanced debugging output
dump($variable);  // Outputs to stderr with optimized formatting

Requirements

• PHP 8.2 or higher
• Composer for dependency management

Integration

This package is designed to be included as a development dependency in JBZoo projects:

{
    "require-dev": {
        "jbzoo/toolbox-dev": "^7.0"
    }
}

License

MIT