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ticaje/design-by-contract
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DbC compliant Library

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Design by Contract compliant library
====================================

[](#design-by-contract-compliant-library)

This library is sort of standard to start working with DbC patterns
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[](#this-library-is-sort-of-standard-to-start-working-with-dbc-patterns)

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Preface
-------

[](#preface)

This library is sort of standard to start working with DbC patterns

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

[](#installation)

You can install this package using composer(the only way i recommend)

```
composer require ticaje/design-by-contract
```

Features
--------

[](#features)

I will be posting documentation as the project grows older.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Héctor Luis Barrientos](https://github.com/ticaje)
- [All Contributors](../../contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

The GNU General Public License (GPLv3). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.

###  Health Score

42

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FairBetter than 89% of packages

Maintenance62

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 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

Every ~120 days

Recently: every ~344 days

Total

16

Last Release

452d ago

Major Versions

1.1.4 → 2.0.02025-03-27

PHP version history (3 changes)1.0.0PHP ^7.1

1.1.2PHP ^7.0

2.0.0PHP ^7.0 || ^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1042962?v=4)[Hector Luis Barrientos](/maintainers/ticaje)[@ticaje](https://github.com/ticaje)

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Top Contributors

[![ticaje](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1042962?v=4)](https://github.com/ticaje "ticaje (37 commits)")

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