"value":"\n <p>I've worked on various teams over the last 13 years on which we've needed to do feature branches, pull requests and code reviews.<\/p>\n\n<p>If the request isn't approved by (usually) two people, it won't be merged.<\/p>\n\n<p>Instead of focusing on the problem that needed to be solved and how I'd done it, many reviews focused on the small details.<\/p>\n\n<p>Do the lines have the correct number of spaces before them?<\/p>\n\n<p>Do the comments end with a full stop?<\/p>\n\n<p>Do the lines wrap at the correct point, and are your variable names in the right case?<\/p>\n\n<p>Essentially, does the code comply with the agreed coding standards?<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"here%27s-the-thing\">Here's the thing<\/h2>\n\n<p>Whilst important (you want the code to follow standards and be in a consistent format), doing these checks manually is not a good use of time and is not what the code review should focus on.<\/p>\n\n<p>These checks can be automated using CI pipelines or Git hooks to run tools like PHPCS to review and sometimes fix coding standards issues.<\/p>\n\n<p>Automating these checks means the Developers can focus on what they should be reviewing.<\/p>\n\n<p>How are they solving the problem, not how many spaces is the code indented by.<\/p>\n\n ",
"format":"full_html",
"processed":"\n <p>I've worked on various teams over the last 13 years on which we've needed to do feature branches, pull requests and code reviews.<\/p>\n\n<p>If the request isn't approved by (usually) two people, it won't be merged.<\/p>\n\n<p>Instead of focusing on the problem that needed to be solved and how I'd done it, many reviews focused on the small details.<\/p>\n\n<p>Do the lines have the correct number of spaces before them?<\/p>\n\n<p>Do the comments end with a full stop?<\/p>\n\n<p>Do the lines wrap at the correct point, and are your variable names in the right case?<\/p>\n\n<p>Essentially, does the code comply with the agreed coding standards?<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"here%27s-the-thing\">Here's the thing<\/h2>\n\n<p>Whilst important (you want the code to follow standards and be in a consistent format), doing these checks manually is not a good use of time and is not what the code review should focus on.<\/p>\n\n<p>These checks can be automated using CI pipelines or Git hooks to run tools like PHPCS to review and sometimes fix coding standards issues.<\/p>\n\n<p>Automating these checks means the Developers can focus on what they should be reviewing.<\/p>\n\n<p>How are they solving the problem, not how many spaces is the code indented by.<\/p>\n\n ",