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nunzion/php-expect
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An expressive but lightweight library to validate preconditions and invariants.

1.1.0(12y ago)150.1k↓50%8MITPHP >=5.3.0

Since May 12Compare

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###  Health Score

34

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LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity28

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

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

Every ~53 days

Recently: every ~91 days

Total

8

Last Release

4384d ago

Major Versions

0.5.0 → 1.0.02014-04-05

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4bbf4a94e3658e3567154235723a15a30433f80e2af8049619cb30248e8821ac?d=identicon)[Henning Dieterichs](/maintainers/Henning%20Dieterichs)

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Tags

validationexceptionassertassertionargumentexpectpreconditioninvariant

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