Moodle issues submitted for review and inclusion into core are examined by our continuous integration (ci) system and checked against various automated tests. We use the automated checks to help improve the code quality in Moodle.
Use composer to download Moodle code
A range of tools are available to make your life as a Moodle developer easier, and your development faster. These range from editor and IDE integrations, to linting tools which helps your code meet Moodle's Coding style, to build tools essential to the build process.
Exceptions, and errors are a fact of life as a developer, and dealing with them in development should be as easy and painless as possible.
Moodle core
Gitpod is a free, cloud-based platform with IDE integration that provides a suitable development environment directly in a browser.
The gulp push command automatically pushes a branch to a git remote and then updates the corresponding Moodle Tracker (Jira) issue with the diff URL or a patch file, similar to mdk push -t. This script was developed using mdk as an example. It's meant to be used for MOBILE issues, so it will only update the "master" fields in the tracker.
Every developer creates simple tools to avoid repeating cumbersome and/or boring tasks, and that is precisely why MDK has been created: to pack all those useful tools in a portable way across systems. Initially developed in Bash, the project moved to Python to avoid dealing with inconsistencies between Unix platforms, and eventually to support Windows.
PHPCodeSniffer is a tool used to analyse PHP code using a set of rules. In many cases these rules can be used to automatically fix the errors they identify.