Hi guys,

Time flies, PHP is still being used and popular in the world 😎

Getting started and working with PHP is totally fast & awesome nowadays, we have plenty of tools to skyrocket your development experience (DX).

Let's check them out 😉

😎 IDEs

• PHPStorm (my go-to IDE)
• Visual Studio Code (has plenty of PHP plugins)

🚀 Laravel Herd

A super tool to install & switch PHP versions, nginx included 😎

The pain of managing the PHP version is no more. Goodbye XAMPP.

Home page: https://herd.laravel.com/

🔋 DBNgin

Get your desired database up and running in no time. Including MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis 🥰

Home page: https://dbngin.com/

✉️ MailTrap

A simple Email service to help us test the email content, recipients,...

No installation is required, we only need to sign up, get the SMTP credentials, and rock your development 🔥

Home page: https://mailtrap.io/

💼 TablePlus

An elegant database management tool, super easy to use, has super high UX, and multiple helpers as well.

We can use it free but limited to 2 tabs. However, the premium version is great and worth the investment.

Home page: https://tableplus.com/

(the author of DBNgin)

(Optional) 🌹 DevToolz

An opinionated development toolz made for developers.

I crafted from my experience. Super useful in your development process.

I hope you'll like it, free to use & open-sourced: https://tools.sethphat.dev/

There will be more tools to come, stays tuned ❤️!

Conclusion

Well, those are the basic tools that you'll need to install & use to achieve the best DX.

Those are the tools I am using every day, and totally satisfied ⭐️

Have fun coding 😉!

P/s: Check out my blog for other topics related to Backend, Scalable & High-perf: https://sethphat.dev