php VS ray

Recently tried this: https://github.com/chevere/xr It's pretty good I think.

🤓 I also made a server for remote debugging, VarDump is the dump layer in XR Debug: https://xr-docs.chevere.org/

I made this one recently, it is still on 0.something https://github.com/chevere/xr and it is a work in progress so you should expect a lot of work to be commited.

✨ XR 0.1.3 is already available at chevere/xr

🤗 Thanks for mention chevere/xr! Just released 0.1.2 chocolito yesterday. https://github.com/chevere/xr/releases/tag/0.1.2

XR is a lightweight, free, Open Source PHP debugger alternative to Ray and Ray App.

Debugging is pretty easy with something like Ray (https://myray.app/) or Laravel Herd (https://herd.laravel.com/, despite its name runs differnet php apps just fine).

When it coems to running different PHP versions, modern PHP development has largely moved to using Docker (ddev, for example: https://ddev.com/) for that, and there's plenty Docker images for old PHP versions so it's a non-issue. I'd also imagine it be difficult to get many other outdated programming languages via a package manager.

There's now the PHP Foundation, which while relatively new in its formation, has significantly boosted PHP development and I'd recommend donating if improving the language is important to you.

I'm using Ray (https://myray.app/) from spatie, it's easy to install (composer) and is doing all I need :)

https://myray.app/ (when not xdebugging)

Similar but not free: https://myray.app

Here is link number 1 - Previous text "Ray"

testimonials gone wrong at myray.app

I'm proud to announce the initial release of the spatie/x-ray package for Ray. The x-ray package provides a command-line utility that finds and displays all calls to ray(), rd(), and other functions from the spatie/ray family of packages. Currently, it only supports PHP projects.