Are you using https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper? Because lately that seems to be the culprit of Laravel methods not being recognized properly for me.

Like:

// Undefined method 'belongsTo'.intelephense(P1013)

    public function role(): BelongsTo
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(Role::class, 'roles_id');
    }

or update() on Models saying it requires 4 params instead of just an array with whatever I need to update.

Or:

I've been through this exact "extension bloat" cycle. If you're on PHP 8.5 and Laravel 13, you definitely have some redundancy fighting for CPU cycles.

My recommended "Lean" Stack: Intelephense, Laravel, Laravel Pint, PHPStan,

Hiya,

Been using VSCode and now Cursor for years and have accumulated some extensions to work with Laravel and PHP. However I have started to become a little puzzled which ones I really need and trying to declutter / optimize my setup.

Currently I run:

• Intelephense (paid)
• Laravel (Official extension)
• Laravel Pint to format on save etc.
• PHPStan by SanderRonde
• PHP Namespace Resolver
• PHP CS Fixer (Shouldn't Pint on it's own be enough?)
• Laravel Extra Intellisense (idk if useful with official Laravel ext also installed)

I also run laravel-ide-helper on each composer install/update. But it seems to cause problems sometimes in Cursor where for example $model->update() gets squiggly lines because it thinks

I have played with PHPantom lately seeing it incorporates a lot of tooling in one and should be faster than Intelephense but it needs some more work before it can replace Intelephense in Cursor imho.

Anything I should drop or add?