Re:Ask HN: What's your PHP development environment setup?
by smt88 on Saturday June 13, 2020 @11:06PM
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Don't use MAMP.
Use whatever OS you like in terms of UI. If you enjoy MacOS, use it.
Run PHP in a container that matches your servers and has declarative infrastructure (Docker Compose, Vagrant, Ansible, Pulumi, whatever). All have boilerplate PHP configs you can download.
Then use PhpStorm. VS Code is free but not even in the ballpark in terms of static analysis, refactoring, linting, and autocomplete.
Use whatever OS you like in terms of UI. If you enjoy MacOS, use it.
Run PHP in a container that matches your servers and has declarative infrastructure (Docker Compose, Vagrant, Ansible, Pulumi, whatever). All have boilerplate PHP configs you can download.
Then use PhpStorm. VS Code is free but not even in the ballpark in terms of static analysis, refactoring, linting, and autocomplete.