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Laravel IdeaSoftware

Who uses, recommends or left Laravel Idea, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Randall Wilk
Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.
liked

Since I mostly work on Laravel projects or packages, I usually enable the Laravel Idea plugin. It's a paid plugin, but it's definitely worth the money since it can provide stuff like auto-completions for route names, request fields and more.

His /uses page, "My current setup", a walkthrough of his development tools, hardware and software; the page is stamped Last Updated: June 15, 2026 and discloses that it may contain affiliate links.

2026-06-15·randallwilk.dev ↗

Duncan McClean
Scottish software developer working on Statamic and maintaining open-source addons such as Runway; writes at duncanmcclean.com.
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I also use the Laravel Idea plugin, which has recently become free.

His post "Uses (September 2025)", listing the tools, services and equipment he uses day to day.

2025-09-06·duncanmcclean.com ↗

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Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

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