While there are extensions to add XDEBUG and phpunit to Sublime Text for instance they are clunky in comparison to mighty PhpStorm. That is so much better than nearly any editor I’ve tried. ![]() I can start it and within a second or two I’m working away. Now if I was to hold a stopwatch to it Atom might beat it by a fraction of a second or so but PhpStorm can hold its own with any of the far-less-capable text editors available. PhpStorm simply removed the advantage held by Atom. This is a stark contrast from traditional IDEs I had tried where I could click the icon, go get a drink and maybe, if I was lucky, it would be ready to use when I got back. I could start the application and it was ready to use in a second or two at most. This may sound like a small deal but one of the things I really did liked about Atom was the speed. I simply don’t know what I would do without it anymore. People… I was blown away! It can do everything! It can connect to multiple hosts to FTP, connect to multiple databases, do this, that… Come on, listen! It has done more for my workflow and my sanity than any single application I’ve purchased in at least the last year or two. Me: You are saying that Atom is not the greatest for PHP!? :DĪfter a month (when I calmed down a little bit) at the insistence of my colleagues I installed PhpStorm and tried it for the first time. yes, it is not free, it is not so popular but it does all the job we need and even few times more. Like, look here, it is Atom, it is build by GitHub, it is fresh, bla, bla, bla… Than one of my colleagues told me, but look Vladan, we are working with PhpStorm. In February of this year I moved to another company to work as a lead Web Developer and people here surprised me how they didn’t knew anything about Atom! Here I started explaining to everyone how Atom is great and honestly I felt like I am bringing some news from the God. Tools like an IDE are supposed to improve your workflow yet with PHP all the traditional tools I was familiar with did nothing except slow me down. NetBeans, Aptana and Eclipse might have been great projects in their own right but they were slow, buggy and offered no better support for PHP than text editors like Sublime Text and Atom. It’s not that I had anything against IDEs and I in fact used them regularly in grad school for projects involving JAVA and other languages but for PHP the choices were always either an afterthought or just plain clunky. While I had been using many different types of editors for my PHP and related work the one step I had never takes with PHP was a full-blown IDE. But Atom had some kind of ‘soul’ for me and I was very connected with it by heart. Sure there are some good plugins but most of them just never felt complete and the only reason I was putting up with it was that I simply didn’t know anything better. This was true for debugging, deploying and just about any other operation other than simply editing text. ![]() Sounds like a dream, right?Įven after using Atom for over a year I never got past the feeling that a lot of what I was doing with it was a hack or a work around that resulted in a less-than elegant solution. It was fast, free, easily customizable through plugins, build on Node.js, published by GitHub and seemed to do everything I needed it to do. ![]() About two years ago I got tired of switching all the time and thought I found my ultimate solution in Atom. I’ve gone through a lot of coding tools over the years, from Dreamweaver to Coda and Sublime I think I’ve tried just about all of them. Here if you are following me and what I am writing it it obviously that I am fan of Atom text editor.
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