We’ve used reflection in our Spacetraders command-line client to automatically build information for the Help command. While powerful, PHP’s Reflection API is cumbersome and verbose, which led to the creation of BetterReflection, a userland wrapper with some nifty tricks up its sleeves, like no autoloading side effects. This month, we’ll use it to streamline route registration, automatically service discovery, and simplify our application architecture. by Oscar Merida