Some advice please ...

I have developed a website from scratch, without any prior web knowledge, using Laravel ... started with 5.0 and have been keeping up to date and have "paused" on 5.5 ... LTS ... Anyway, I have loved every minute of my time working on it and it has now been live for 2 years and I have managed to give my users a very usable/friendly/24-7 secure system "in the cloud" .. I use datatables and modals extensively and the performance is good for what it does ... I recently added some Vue.js to one of my sessions and after all the jquery/javascript/ajax that I have become used to, I now realize that client side based website are the way to go. My Laravel experience has been built up with the help of Dr Google, in my spare time. I am a Unix bod ... my servers run Ubuntu and my DEV is in the cloud and I use Netbeans8.2 IDE on the server and connect via remote desktop ... All works fine, but is time consuming ... I cant get VIM working on Netbeans so am stuck with a mouse based editor ... and get pretty frustrated with not being able to use VIM type editing. My dilemma is that I know what I don't know ... and that is a lot ... I have re-joined laracasts.com and my plan is to slowly start from scratch and get a good understanding of the framework and how to interact with it. I watch Jeffery's videos and am awestruck how easy he makes it look. SO ... the advice I need ... 1. Best Practice for a DEV site? (local/cloud ... Windows/Mac/Linux) 2. What IDE? Other than that, I just need time to unravel all my bad code/habits and adapt and embrace the new, better way of doing things Thanks for a great forum ...