Laravel 6 VS laravel-ide-helper

Laravel Tinker allows you to interact through a command line with any project that uses the Laravel framework. It allows users to access all the events and objects. Tinker is an optional add on, so we should manually install with the Laravel versions after 5.4.

CMF is good, but I think these two things are not the same. What I do is just a lightweight thing that only requires your application to integrate Tinker/PsySH, and whatever your Laravel or PHP version is, so I just made something that you should write PHP code in the terminal and now can be written in the editor or GUI.

This incredible app was developed with the Laravel Developer in mind, to simplify the work that we all already do: Use the tinker tool. 🤔

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.