laravel-backup VS laravel-ide-helper

https://github.com/jeremykenedy/laravel-logger#authentication-middleware-usage https://github.com/beyondcode/laravel-dump-server https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar https://github.com/laravel-shift/blueprint https://github.com/spatie/laravel-backup https://github.com/spatie/laravel-permission https://github.com/spatie/laravel-activitylog https://github.com/realrashid/sweet-alert https://github.com/rappasoft/laravel-livewire-tables https://github.com/yajra/laravel-datatables https://github.com/Labs64/laravel-boilerplate https://github.com/creativetimofficial/argon-dashboard-laravel https://github.com/the-control-group/voyager https://github.com/beyondcode/laravel-er-diagram-generator

8. spatie/laravel-backup

4. spatie/laravel-backup https://github.com/spatie/laravel-backup

In my case I'm dumping + zipping the entire database at the application level. In my case is as simple as adding a library [1], scheduling the job and transferring to AWS S3 (my main application is on DigitalOcean)

[1] https://github.com/spatie/laravel-backup

Database backups via php artisan backup:run

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.