entrust VS laravel-ide-helper

Laravel Entrust

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.

However, my IDE (PhpStorm) doesn't provide any type hinting / argument suggestions on the method. I do use https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper and the Laravel Idea plugin, but neither seem to offer these.

I use barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper, which adds @properties and @methods to models. These help IDE auto-completion and static analysis.

Is it possible that maybe you're biased towards Code Igniter because you're very familiar with it ? Your criticism that Laravel hides a lot of code is valid (The fact that it requires stub files or a plugin for autocompletion to work properly in your IDE is proof of that. But the "think of the newbies" argument is overused and not really fair here I think : It's a framework, of course it's going to allow you to take shortcuts, but it's up to the user to learn PHP first and look at the source code (which is full of magic but rather clean and well documented) to understand what they're using.

1. barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

What we use: https://andries.io/high-quality-laravel-easy-coding-standard-larastan-grumphp/ + https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

Laravel IDE Helper Generator | This package generates helper files that enable your IDE to provide accurate autocompletion. Generation is done based on the files in your project, so they are always up-to-date.