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improvephp/kaataa
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Start practicing code katas and improving your skills

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Kaataa
======

[](#kaataa)

😎 Improve your programming skills by solving challenges

✅ Verify your solutions with Unit Tests

💡 A really good start point to understanding TDD

What is a Kata?
---------------

[](#what-is-a-kata)

In programming, a kata is an exercise which helps you to enhance skills through practice and repetition.

If you want more information, please check [Awesome Katas](https://github.com/gamontal/awesome-katas#introduction).

Why Kaataa?
-----------

[](#why-kaataa)

Kaataa is a open source project heavily inspired in simplicity of [Laravel](https://laravel.com). With Kaataa, you can take advantage from Unit Tests.

It is supercharged with:

- PHPUnit
- Mockery
- Pest (soon)

Of course, it's also has the **dd** helper from [Symfony](https://symfony.com) for easy debugging while you get fun on it.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 8.1 or greater
- Composer 2

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer create-project improvephp/kaataa {your_project_name}
```

Quick start
-----------

[](#quick-start)

Automatically create Class and Test files

```
php dojo create:kata {NameOfYourKata}
```

Another commands
----------------

[](#another-commands)

Want to make a only a class? No problem

```
php dojo make:class {ClassName}
```

Only a test? Of course

```
php dojo make:test {TestName}
```

Run tests
---------

[](#run-tests)

From composer (easier)

```
composer test
```

PHPUnit

```
./vendor/bin/phpunit
```

Video
-----

[](#video)

[![Check out the demo](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/9c98698811d7353a7c8b27b87adaa6235ab7e6f73e206e84d7ec6d7e2b69d7b8/68747470733a2f2f696d672e796f75747562652e636f6d2f76692f53624e56746e6a4c777a452f302e6a7067)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbNVtnjLwzE)

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance35

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

607d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8db167a28f10b98467bb0416c136287e6f616a8ee52476ce21a96dc2cfe9ad57?d=identicon)[improvephp](/maintainers/improvephp)

---

Top Contributors

[![sebacarrasco93](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/30738997?v=4)](https://github.com/sebacarrasco93 "sebacarrasco93 (53 commits)")

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