CodeIgniter4 VS laravel-ide-helper

Wrong repo mate 🤗 That’s version 3, which is legacy. Here ya go: https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4

Glad you found it! You may be interested in the change in this PR, to make these mistakes more visible: https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4/pull/6406

No real difference! It has the automated Model handling (see: https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4/blob/develop/system/RESTful/BaseResource.php) and provides the example methods to match $routes->presenter() but there’s nothing “magic” about it.

Rewriting software from scratch is always a mistake in my experience. If you want to replace the system take a look at some existing SaaS products that you could license for a decent price. That way somebody else is responsible for fixing bugs and improving the software. Codeigniter4 appears to be actively maintained (https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4) and unless you need to scale to millions of people I don’t see a reason to rewrite.

Website is having some forum performance issues after server patches that's bogging everything down, but come by our repo for the activity: https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4

We’ve got some better docs in the works: https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4/pull/4565

This works well, but it does make it harder for the IDE to handle unless you’re using something like the Laravel IDE Helper package.

barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper: IDE Helper for Laravel

Perhaps https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper? I haven’t used it in a while so can’t remember if it will specifically help with the results of methods like first().

This. As well as adding https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper as a dev package. Then run the artisan commands to generate helper files.

As an addition to what others have said - For Laravel development specifically, it is worth adding the https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper package to your dev dependencies.

https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper has helped me with this in the past.

What you're looking for is: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

Laravel has some magic inside of it, that's why create() doesn't show up in your IDE completion. Not sure if it works in VS Code, but the ide-helper package helps PhpStorm to understand the internals of Laravel better.

Why do you need an IDE for PHP? Its not compiled, there’s no GUI etc. You can get autocompletion etc for laravel in VS Code too with https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

There is no exception in this case when using the package barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper that generates helper files that enable your IDE to provide accurate autocompletion.