TOOLS
We are going to need some tools if we want to build something.
Visual Studio Code
Added: 2025/09/09
Type: Code Editor
Description: Visual Studio Code is a free code editor created by Microsoft. It is very popular for code development, and we can add extensions that help us with our tasks.
Laravel goto view
Added: 2025/09/09
Type: Extension for Visual Studio Code
Description: Quick jump to view. Allows to go from your controllers or routes to your view with a quick click. "Ctrl + Alt + Click"
PHP Intelephense
Added: 2025/09/09
Type: Extension for Visual Studio Code
Description: More tools for PHP dev.
PHP CS FIXER
Added: 2025/09/09
Type: Extension for Visual Studio Code
Description: Fixes the code to follow some standards. Pretty usefull if you ask me, same as if you use prettier for React.
Laravel Snippets
Added: 2025/09/09
Type: Extension for Visual Studio Code
Description: Snippet prefix follows Laravel Facades. For example: Request::, Route::
Eslint
Added: 2025/09/09
Type: Extension for Visual Studio Code
Description: Helps React to have a nice clean code and no lint errors.
Prettier
Added: 2025/09/09
Type: Extension for Visual Studio Code
Description: It's a code formatter. Similar to PHP CS FIXER but for React, helps us keep in the standars to have a nicer and cleaner code.
GitHub Actions
Added: 2025/09/09
Type: Extension for Visual Studio Code
Description: The GitHub Actions extension lets you manage your workflows, view the workflow run history, all from our Visual Studio Code.
GitLens
Added: 2025/09/09
Type: Extension for Visual Studio Code
Description: It lets us view when we did a change to the code, etc.., pretty usefull when working in teams.
React Developer Tools
Added: 2025/09/09
Type: Browser Extension
Description: Helps us debug.
Fonts Ninja
Added: 2025/09/09
Type: Browser Extension
Description: Tells you what font and size your using.
ColorZilla
Added: 2025/09/09
Type: Browser Extension
Description: Point to a color and gives you the code for it.
React
Added: 2025/09/22
Type: Library
Description: React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces, mainly used to create fast, reusable, and interactive UI components for web apps.
Laravel
Added: 2025/09/22
Type: Framework
Description: Laravel is a framework that brings together multiple tools and best practices out of the box, making development easier and saving us from building from scratch many features that we would otherwise need to code manually with plain PHP.
Node
Added: 2025/09/22
Type: Runtime environment
Description: Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment that lets us run JavaScript code on the server side, outside the browser, and enables us to build a backend with JavaScript.
Bootstrap
Added: 2025/09/22
Type: Framework
Description: Bootstrap is a front-end framework that provides prebuilt CSS components out of the box. It’s easy to use, has a large community, and is well-documented thanks to its long history.