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PHPStorm is the best, Although it offer a lot of powerful tools, it's feel bloated and not joy to use overtime. I like to fire up visual studio code because working in it is much more productive than working with phpstorm. The problems with vscode is it not smart enough. For example --- I want to import Schema from facades but the vscode so clueless that it doesn't know where the heck facades Schema is located at and I need to manually type everything.
VS Code is pretty powerful when you install extensions aimed at providing functionality that you need. Only install what you'll use, though. Unlike PHP Storm you start with a pretty blank slate for you to create a development environment that you'll be happy with. The first thing it sounds like you need is the PHP Intelephense extension for PHP Intellisense features.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bmewburn.vscode-intelephense-client
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