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Rainglow: a collection of beautiful handcrafted themes

Dayle Rees, author of various popular books on PHP and Laravel, has recently blown new life into his efforts of creating IDE and terminal themes. He created themes for most of the popular apps out there including: PhpStorm, VS Code, Atom, iTerm2, ...

You can preview all the themes on: https://rainglow.io/

I've been using Dayle's Material Peacock for quite some time. Currently I'm digging white based themes and I'm on the GitHub theme.

github theme screenshot

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My VS Code Setup

In an absolutely fantastic post Caleb Porzio, engineer at Tighten Co., goes through his VS Code setup. He goes over his extensions, key bindings, must-have settings, ...

I’m using VS Code as my primary editor these days and am really digging it. My setup is by no means perfect, but I've made lots of little tweaks along the way that you may benefit from. I've set up these nifty categories, so feel free to jump around and try stuff out as you go, or come back later and use it as a reference.

http://calebporzio.com/my-vs-code-setup-2/

I've made the switch from PhpStorm to VS Code a couple of weeks ago and have been using it ever since. I like the speed improvements over PhpStorm, the zen feel, the xdebug experience, ... It just feels lighter (and I mean that in a good way) compared to PhpStorm.

If you want to give VS Code a shot too, go watch the free Visual Studio Code for PHP developers course on Laracasts.

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