psalm/plugin-laravel

Psalm plugin for Laravel

v3.1.2 2026-02-27 10:34 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2
• ext-simplexml: *
• barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper: ^3.6
• illuminate/config: ^11.35 || ^12.0
• illuminate/container: ^11.35 || ^12.0
• illuminate/contracts: ^11.35 || ^12.0
• illuminate/database: ^11.35 || ^12.0
• illuminate/events: ^11.35 || ^12.0
• illuminate/http: ^11.35 || ^12.0
• illuminate/routing: ^11.35 || ^12.0
• illuminate/support: ^11.35 || ^12.0
• illuminate/view: ^11.35 || ^12.0
• nikic/php-parser: ^5.0
• orchestra/testbench-core: ^9.11 || ^10.0
• symfony/console: ^7.1
• symfony/finder: ^7.1
• vimeo/psalm: ^6.15 || ^7.0.0-beta16 || dev-master

Requires (Dev)

• laravel/framework: ^11.35 || ^12.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^10.5 || ^11.5
• phpyh/psalm-tester: ^0.1.0
• ramsey/collection: ^1.3
• rector/rector: ^2.3
• slevomat/coding-standard: ^8.15
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^3.11
• symfony/http-foundation: ^7.1

MIT

• Matthew Brown

• laravel
• dev
• psalm
• psalm-plugin

README

Psalm plugin for Laravel

Looking for contributors

This package is maintained by @alies-dev and is open to new contributors. If you're passionate about Laravel internals and static analysis, consider joining the effort.

Areas where help is especially welcome:

• Full support for custom Model Query Builders
• Option to rely on Model @property declarations only
• Remove barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper dependency for more accurate attribute types
• Support .sql migration files for attribute discovery

Overview

A Psalm plugin that provides static analysis and type support for Laravel. Catch type-related bugs early — without writing a single test.

Versions & Dependencies

Maintained versions:

Laravel Psalm Plugin	PHP	Laravel	Psalm
4.x (upcoming)	^8.3	12, 13	7
3.x	^8.2	11, 12	6, 7
2.12+	^8.0	9, 10, 11	5, 6

(Older versions of Laravel, PHP, and Psalm were supported by version 1.x of the plugin, but they are no longer maintained)

See releases for more details about supported PHP, Laravel and Psalm versions.

Quickstart

Step 1: Install

composer require --dev psalm/plugin-laravel

Step 2: Configure

If you didn't use Psalm on the project before, you need to create a Psalm config:

./vendor/bin/psalm --init

Step 3: Enable the plugin:

./vendor/bin/psalm-plugin enable psalm/plugin-laravel

Step 4: Run 🚀

Run your usual Psalm command:

./vendor/bin/psalm

You can customize Psalm configuration using XML config and/or cli parameters.

Recommendation: use baseline file and increase errorLevel at least to 4: this way you can catch more issues. Step by step set errorLevel to 1 and use Psalm and this plugin at full power 🚀.

How it works

Under the hood it just runs https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper and feeds the resultant stubs into Psalm, which can read PhpStorm meta stubs.

It also parses any database migrations it can find to try to understand property types in your database models.

Psalm-Laravel-Plugin or Larastan?

Both! It's fine to use both tools at the same project: they use different approaches to analyze code, and thus you can find more bugs! Psalm and PHPStan use almost the same syntax annotations, so you should not have any conflicts.