#Instal the new for mac CodeLobster IDE install#
#Instal the new for mac CodeLobster IDE code#
#Instal the new for mac CodeLobster IDE windows#

The instructions have some settings that aren’t strictly necessary, like setting xdebug.remote_handler = dbgp which is actually the default anyway. Getting XDebug to run and stop at breakpoints and all that requires modifying your php.ini, but there are straightforward instructions for Windows, Linux and Mac from and good instructions on as well. Over multiple versions from 7.0 to 8.1 (July 2016), it has been pretty simple in Netbeans for me. I have often found that getting debugging to work well in a PHP IDE can be trying.

#Instal the new for mac CodeLobster IDE install#

If it is not, you can easily install it, but for Composer to see it, you also need to make sure that the PHP OpenSSL extension is active.

#Instal the new for mac CodeLobster IDE windows#

When you install Composer, it prefers to see OpenSSL (or Windows binaries) running on your system. If Symfony throws errors try just downloading the tarball and intalling manually. As I’ve already mentioned, installing Twig using Composer, for example, is dead easy. Of course, you have to actually install Composer ( *nix or Mac Windows), Twig, Symfony and so on. So we have numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 covered out of the box. It also includes support for Composer and will auto-detect SASS, Gulp, Grunt, Node and Bower. Netbeans has long been a serious, full-featured IDE, but Netbeans 8.1 adds support for Symfony, Twig and HTML5. Netbeans Components: Twig, Symfony, Composer, HTML5 support Awareness of the Drupal API and Drupal coding conventions for modules and themes.Installing Twig using Composer, for example, is dead easy. So since we’re going to need Symfony, Twig and SASS, you might was well have Composer. Composer manages dependencies and checks to make sure crucial dependencies are available. SASS is not really baked into Drupal like the others, but it is becoming more and more common for themes to be built upon SASS. Support for the SASS extensions to CSS3, in particular in its SCSS flavor.Support for Twig, the templating language that will be the default template engine in Drupal 8.Support for Symfony, the PHP framework that Drupal 8 will be built on for major components of Drupal 8.Debugger with breakpoints and profiling.

#Instal the new for mac CodeLobster IDE code#

Standard IDE goodness - syntax highlighting, code completion, code hints, brace match, code collapsing and all that.

So a good IDE should be able to offer the following: Above all the debugger has always just worked great for me and that is the key tool I want in an IDE. Other people’s experiences differ, but I’ve found it the easiest to use. As of 2021, I’m still a Netbeans user any time I’m working on a project where I want to be able to set breakpoints and inspect code as it executes. I’ve also tried Eclipse (never could get the debugger working - ironic), Code Lobster and several others, and I always come back to Netbeans. I found it as good as Netbeans, but not better. That said, I’ve tried PHP Storm, which seems to frequently top the list of favorites. You still have to install those tools separately, but once they’re on your machine, Netbeans will play nice with them. In the case of git, it highlights changes from the committed version. For instance, it finds your SASS gem automatically, has syntax highlighting and so forth. When I say that it’s “ready,” I mean that it auto-detects those tools. Netbeans already supported Composer, Symfony and Twig out of the box back with version 7.1. Netbeans is SASS-ready and also is ready to run with tools like Grunt, Gulp, and so forth. With the Netbeans 8.1 update, all of that comes with Netbeans out of the box.

You almost certainly have at least git and possibly Grunt, Gulp, Bower and other tools as part of your workflow.

Though not part of Drupal per se, more and more themes depend on SASS.

Composer is the de facto standard, for getting up and running with a Drupal 8 site.

Most themes at this point should be using HTML5 and CSS3, so again, you want an IDE that understands those.

Drupal 8 is built on Symfony themed with Twig, so you want syntax highlighting support for Twig.

Think of your ultimate toolkit for Drupal 8 development. At least for me Netbeans + Drupal equals the best combination out there for doing serious work. Netbeans and Drupal are still a winning combination as both move up to version 8.