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

Software Development Text Editors IDE

Local by Flywheel Landing Page

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Local by Flywheel

Provides a simple, local development environment with a friendly GUI.

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.

#Web And Application Servers #CMS #Development Tools 227 social mentions
Composer Landing Page
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Composer

Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP.
Pricing:
- Open Source
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.

#Development Tools #Javascript UI Libraries #JavaScript Framework 124 social mentions
Vite Landing Page
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Vite

Next Generation Frontend Tooling
Pricing:
- Open Source
Vite is the main one. Install and run it as a proxy in between your WSL2 / PHP container and your system web browser.

#Software Development #Web Frameworks #Developer Tools 374 social mentions
Neovim Landing Page
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Neovim

Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
Pricing:
- Open Source
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.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 96 social mentions
Windows Package Manager CLI Landing Page

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Windows Package Manager CLI

Windows Package Manager CLI (aka winget). Contribute to microsoft/winget-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.

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.

#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 10 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
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Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
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.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1008 social mentions