
If your development ain’t dedicated to the only PHP then you should use VSCode as it’s not an IDE but more of an editor that you can customize as per your development needs.Īs I’ve said earlier VSCode is purely a code editor without any default extensions. I love PHPStorm even now but when it comes to speed it cannot match with VSCode at all. VSCode is a free and open-source platform while you need to pay for PHPStorm Thanks to the Vscode community on Github for this feature.In my three and a half years of short development career, I mainly used PHPStorm IDE to build projects and I can say that I was quite satisfied with PHPStorm.īut from the past 8-9 months, our entire team have been shifted our development completely to VSCode and we have our own good reasons to do that. Solutions: You need to put this to your keybindings.json: This is a game changer, once you have used it, you can’t go back. You will tell me that I can change the configuration of the keyboard shortcuts but I’m keen on the shift shift. We are therefore unable to use this native shortcut. The equivalent in Vscode is ctrl+p but it’s overloaded by the IntelliJ IDEA Keybindings extension. Issue: The IntelliJ IDEA Keybindings extension does not support the quick open file ( shift shift) available in PhpStorm. So the IntelliJ IDEA Keybindings extension fits this case almost perfectly.

Question comes: How can I avoid losing my keyboard shortcuts? The main obstacle to changing text editors is the modification of keyboard shortcuts, and therefore of automatisms/habits. But my needs have evolved, and I’m going to move towards a stack using Typescript. For a long time, I worked with PhpStorm to write PHP and some Javascript.
