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Top 17 PhpStorm Plugins (100% free)

Tabnine on November 10, 2020

There’s no shortage of IDE solutions for PHP developers out there. Beginners can usually get by with basic code editors, but the best practice is t...
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Code Better Academy

I love PHP Inspections, probably the best plugin out there for PHPStorm.

Here are my top 5 plugins for PHPStorm:

  1. PHP Inspections (EA Extended)

  2. Framework Support Plugin (Symfony)

  3. Key Promoter X

  4. PHPUnit Enhancement

  5. JetBrains Toolbox App

I've made a video showing the possibilities of each plugin: youtu.be/h18-RtRqHZY

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Andrei Dascalu

If the AI completion is as good as I hear, it would be the first thing I see that phpstorm has over vscode. Still not sure the pricing is worth it.

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Tabnine

Tabnine if free! Our basic plan is full-featured, while the pro plan enables cloud servers. Check out our special Singles' Day promotion for a pro subscription tabnine.com/promotion/SinglesDay2020/

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Ben Sinclair

From the Github repo:
"There are no source files here because the backend is closed source."

It may be free as in gratis, but it's not free software and I think the distinction is important.

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Igor Zarvanskyi

If you're serious about code documentation, you need a plugin that can keep up. Better Highlights plugin (plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12895...) is the answer - with comments to code link support and improved comments highlighting for various languages, it's a must-have for any JetBrains IDE user.