laravel-ide-helper
IDE Helper for Laravel (by barryvdh)
Phpactor
Mainly a PHP Language Server with more features than you can shake a stick at (by phpactor)
| laravel-ide-helper | Phpactor | |
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| 33 | 9 | |
| 14,697 | 1,693 | |
| 0.4% | 2.3% | |
| 8.5 | 8.3 | |
| 28 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
laravel-ide-helper
Posts with mentions or reviews of laravel-ide-helper.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-12-22.
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Setting up neovim for Laravel development
Laravel can confuse LSPs, which is where Laravel IDE Helper package comes in. It is a CLI that generates helper files that improve auto-completion and solves diagnostic errors.
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Laravel Under The Hood - A Little Bit of Macros
Well, as you have seen, there is a lot of magic going on, and the IDE wouldn't know about the defined macros. If you're working within a team, other developers won't know about these macros either, which is not good. Luckily, there are tools to help you with that. A free and open source option is the Laravel IDE helper package.
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Elevate Your Laravel Eloquent Queries with Tappable Scopes
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.
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VSCode for PHP and Laravel
barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper: IDE Helper for Laravel
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Best practice for code-completion after retrieving an Eloquent model using Model::first()
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().
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What are some Good VS Code Extensions for PHP/Laravel?
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.
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learning laravel and I see variable declarations? like this /** @var User $user */
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.
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why do i get this error on vscode but, when i send a request to it works !!!!
https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper has helped me with this in the past.
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Thoughts on "Hard Coding" properties for auto complete?
What you're looking for is: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper
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Why aren't certain methods showing on my model?
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.
Phpactor
Posts with mentions or reviews of Phpactor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-12-22.
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Setting up neovim for Laravel development
PHP Actor is a free alternative that includes the core features you'd expect from an LSP.
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VSCode for PHP and Laravel
# Download phpactor.phar curl -Lo phpactor.phar https://github.com/phpactor/phpactor/releases/latest/download/phpactor.phar
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Sharing my Laravel language server integration progress
The other path is a pull request on https://github.com/phpactor/phpactor/pull/1991 which takes care of the lsp side of things.
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Best Neovim PHP IDE option?
Even I'm a PHPStorm user. I still have neovim installed and using there PHPActor: https://github.com/phpactor/phpactor
- What would be better VS Code or PHP Storm?
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How could I make vim generate boilerplate from my php file every time I create a new file in my project?
Or use phpactor/phpactor with a template to always get it right.
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Working on improved LSP tooling for Laravel blade bringing intellisense to all editors!
Now experimenting more by exposing public properties of a Livewire component via https://github.com/phpactor/phpactor in blade files.
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Does anyone use vim to develop in PHP with Symfony?
Im using this https://github.com/phpactor/phpactor with ncm2 with ale. Im quite happy with it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing laravel-ide-helper and Phpactor you can also consider the following projects:
vscode-intelephense - PHP intellisense for Visual Studio Code
larastan - ⚗️ Adds code analysis to Laravel improving developer productivity and code quality.
Rector - Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code
Laravel 6 - Powerful REPL for the Laravel framework.
WordPress Packagist - WordPress Packagist — manage your plugins with Composer