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title: "Rector Rules for Laravel"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/rector-rules-for-laravel-hhuk4mwyn
source_url: https://laravel-news.com/rector-rules-for-laravel
type: article
source: "Laravel News"
published: 2025-10-16T13:21:59.246Z
updated: 2025-10-16T13:22:25.737Z
tags: ["php", "laravel"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 24
comments: 0
language: en
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# Rector Rules for Laravel

**[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 2 min read · 24 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Rector for Laravel is a PHP tool extension that automates code upgrades and refactoring for Laravel applications. It offers automatic version-based rule application, step-by-step upgrade paths between Laravel versions, and specific rulesets for improving code quality. Features include replacing conditional statements with helper functions (abort_if, throw_if), adding type hints for better type safety, and numerous configurable rules for Laravel-specific optimizations.

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