![]() ![]() I've always found auto closing quotes and braces to close the thing and put the cursor behind, slowing me down to have to move my cursor back into the brace or quote to type what I wanted. I started in CLI back in the 80s, so my views/opinions are ancient. Now I'm an odd bug, I don't use auto complete, I don't like hints, and I hate auto closing things. I started using netbeans back in like '10 or some time close to that, but switching from mac to windows, I figured I'd explore the options. I didn't like PHPStorm, I'm not a huge fan of vscode though either but it's got some things I like. It's much faster, works better (especially when a file gets changed externally), has a much better interface for GIT and the built-in terminal is great. I have a license from work for PHPStorm but I actually use VSCode exclusively now. ![]() It also has a bunch of extensions for Laravel / Blade / Vue which is nice. With all the above, you've got a great, fast, and powerful PHP editor. Exactly what it says for those making the switch I believe that installing PHP Extension Pack will install all of these and more, but I haven't personally used that. PHP Debug: Add built-in support for XDebug. You can also add your own rules extremely easily. This will automatically style your code on save following whichever standard you choose. PHP-CS-FIXER: Sounds like the above, but completely different. It gives you all the functionality that you'd expect from an IDE (shows errors, lets you jump to a declaration even if it's in another file, etc) ![]() A php code sniffer that pretty much turns VSCode into an IDE by leveraging your PHP installation. They're all free and take less than a minute to install. If you switch from PHPStorm to VSCode you need to know that you need to install a couple of plugins for PHP to make it more like an IDE than a simple editor. ![]()
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