Old school developer, looking for suggestions to modernize my dev environment

• Vagrant

  115 25,835 9.0 Ruby

  Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

  

MAMP is still widely used for php dev on windows and mac, Local by Flywheel is very popular for Wordpress dev, although you can use without WP. Vagrant, Homestead, are also popular; more flexibility and power, but more difficult to use.

• Composer

  191 28,225 9.5 PHP

  Dependency Manager for PHP

  

You'll definitely want to get up-to-speed on composer. It's the de-facto standard for package management and class autoloading. Every serious php project I know of uses composer.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• winget-cli

  283 22,110 9.3 C++

  WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

  

Winget: MS's official package manager (available via windows store) but it's also the youngest of the three. This is what i've been using exclusively since earlier this year, because most of what i've been using was supported at that point. Minor annoyance eliminated, can be used in any shell. Note: You won't always instantly have the latest updates, they can be behind by about 1-2 days.

• vite

  785 64,595 9.9 TypeScript

  Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

  

Vite is the main one. Install and run it as a proxy in between your WSL2 / PHP container and your system web browser.

• neovim

  1,383 76,256 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

Other text editors with IDE capabilities i'd consider are sublime text 4 or neovim. If you really wanted to go for the monolithic editor there's jetbrainz phpstorm, but it's got quite the pricetag.

• Visual Studio Code

  2,838 158,095 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

VScode (not Visual Studio) is pretty much the web code editor of choice at this point, however it does require time to configure and can chug on larger files (e.g. logs) in which case it's useful to have a copy of notepad++ on hand, just in case.

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