PHP & Laravel Developer's Environment Setup
Essential Softwares:
XAMPP ( Download Link: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html )
or, MAMP ( Specially for Mac) ( Download Link: https://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/)Node.js (LTS version) ( Download Link: https://nodejs.org/en/download/ )
Composer ( Download Link: https://getcomposer.org/download/ )
Git ( Download Link: https://git-scm.com/downloads )
Visual Studio Code (Free Code Editor) ( Download Link: https://code.visualstudio.com/download )
PHPStorm (Paid Code Editor) ( Download Link: https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/download )
If you are going to use PHPStorm as your code editor then no need to install any plugin as PHPStorm ships with built-in support for PHP and Laravel.
VS Code Extensions:
Note: If you don't want to install the extentions from No. 4 to 15 one by one, then you can just install this
Laravel Extension Packextention which will also install all of those plugins as well.
| SL No: | Plugins |
| 1 | PHP Intelephense |
| 2 | PHP DocBlocker |
| 3 | PHP Namespace Resolver |
| 4 | Laravel Blade Snippets |
| 5 | Laravel Snippets |
| 6 | Laravel Artisan |
| 7 | Laravel Extra Intellisense |
| 8 | Laravel goto view |
| 9 | Laravel Blade Spacer |
| 10 | laravel-jump-controller |
| 11 | laravel-goto-components |
| 12 | Laravel Blade formatter |
| 13 | Laravel Create View |
| 14 | Laravel Blade Wrapper |
| 15 | DotENV |
| 16 | ES Lint |
| 17 | Auto Close Tag |
| 18 | Auto Rename Tag |
| 19 | Theme: "Night Owl" ( Or Any theme you like) |
| 20 | Material Icon Theme for Icons |
| 21 | Prettier - Code formatter |
Fonts for Developers:
Operator Mono (Download Link: https://github.com/keyding/Operator-Mono/archive/refs/heads/master.zip )
Fira Code ( Download Link: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/releases/download/6.2/Fira_Code_v6.2.zip )
Dank Mono
