



I have several additional plugins installed - but the most useful by far is Laravel Idea which provides some great auto completion on for Laravel projects. I use the "Darcula" theme and to keep things tidy, I always hide some the tools I don't use (e.g. I've used PHPStorm as my primary IDE for several years and can't imagine using anything else now - the annual subscription is well worth it. This is what I've gone with: IDE & Editors I took this opportunity to review and update my development environment to suit me as a full stack PHP / Laravel developer. The change in architecture away from Intel to Apples own ARM based CPU meant that some software would no longer run on my new machine. At the end of 2020 my trusty mid-2014 MacBook Pro died and was replaced with the latest generation MacBook Pro, running an Apple Silicon M1 Pro processor.
