Software Update: PhpStorm 2021.1

JetBrains releases several development environments, such as IntelliJ Idea targeting Java, CLion targeting C and C++, DataGrip targeting SQL and PhpStorm targeting PHP. PhpStorm provides on-the-fly error prevention, autocompletion, code refactoring, and debugging, as well as HTML, CSS, Coffee, and JavaScript capabilities. For an overview of the possibilities, we refer to this page. To use PhpStorm is a license required. For business and home use you will have to pay for it, but if the software is used for education or non-commercial open source projects, the license is free. JetBrains has released PhpStorm 2021.1. The complete release notes can here are found, this is the short but powerful announcement:

What’s New in PhpStorm 2021.1

PhpStorm 2021.1 is a major update that introduces the ability to preview for PHP and HTML files in the editor, 20+ new inspections to help prevent bugs, improvements in all subsystems, and pair programming via Code With Me.