What is the best IDE for Laravel?

Fully fledged IDE

• PHPStorm is by far the best one I tried. It's a bit pricey though.
• Netbeans is free and pretty good
• Eclipse is also free and pretty good

There are probably a few more out there but htese are the ones I tried.

Editors

• VS Code Awesome free editor
• Sublime Awesome editor can be used freely but is worth the small license fee
• Vim awesome as well but a bit trickier to learn free
• Brackets pretty good efitor
• Notepad++ good editor but not even close to VS Code, or Sublime.

In the end of the day it all comes down to preferences but if you are doing some serious development more or less full time I would go for PHPStorm every day.

You should check out the videos in the tools section on how to set them up.

https://laracasts.com/skills/tooling

PHPStorm currently for me; but I have configured Sublime, and later VSCode, to do a lot in terms of code discovery, hinting etc. - it just took a lot of time and experimentation to get them working to my liking.

The big negatives with PHPStorm for me are cost and resource usage (indexing is something I have not tweaked to my satisfaction)

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@mahmoudghalayini There’s no one “best” IDE. Try a couple out and see which one you are most comfortable and productive with.

I think anyone would be happy with Visual Studio Code and it's FREE. It seems silly to pay for something else.

I don't have anything bad to say about it and it's really the only Microsoft tool I'm happy with. I also like the fact that your computer can shut down or crash and you don't lose anything because it autosaves without actually saving to the real file.

How is PHPStorm expensive? I'm paying like 60$ a year. Started at $80 I believe but each year you get a little discount. It's the one editor that is actually never in your way and the auto code formatting is prefect and the auto upload on blur is super handy. Of course the hinting and builtin DataGrip and everything else is just a must have. --my opinion!

Sublime Text is great for its speed but if you're like me and need the code blocks nicely aligned you end up doing hundreds of keystrokes extra a session, tabbing everything in place ;)

1. PhP storm
2. Sublime

@artcore For some people it's very expensive, it's worth the money but it still it's more than many people can afford.

I wanted to know everyone's experience and opinion. That's it :)

Visual studio code is best IDE for Laravel it is free IDE. you can easily use git hub and can push your code from this IDE . It helps in debugging and corrects the code using the intelli-sense method.

My best IDE for Laravel is Codelobster - http://www.codelobster.com/laravel.html

Best IDE PHPStorm. Best FREE IDE VSCode...But, VSCODE needs to install proper plugins then it will work very good with Laravel. You can try PHPStorm Trials..There are ways to use PHPStorm regularly with trials if cant afford the IDE.. And for student account, PHPStorm is free for 1 Year.