coding-standard VS laravel-ide-helper

If you go through the imports in the config/insights.php file, you'll see that it mostly uses rules from NunoMaduro\PhpInsights and SlevomatCodingStandard\Sniffs. The former is PHP Insight's in-house insights and the latter is the sniffs from the Slevomat coding standard. In most cases, you'll only ever reach for those two.

However, you can get cognitive complexity in phpcs with the slevomat ruleset. This ruleset is used as a base for the Doctrine coding standard.

I think you can use the Slevomat Coding Standards to solve both issues.

I also make heavy use of Codesniffer with PSR12 as a base and a load of the rules from https://github.com/slevomat/coding-standard - learning how to use Codesniffer and setting up a comprehensive coding standard can be incredibly helpful when working as part of a team.

You should check out https://github.com/slevomat/coding-standard for some very useful additional rules.

no need for muscle memory, there's a phpcs rule for that 🙂

Codesniffer. Though the requirements may differ between projects I typically use PSR12 as a starting point, plus disallowing long array syntax, enforcing a need for DocBlocks, and a few others. I find https://github.com/slevomat/coding-standard is also a good source of useful sniffs.

Well, as we have this phpcs rule in our coding standard, it is forbidden (for us) 😉 Maybe, forbidden is not a good word, though.

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.