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Laravel Homestead vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?

Introduction

When comparing Laravel Homestead and Visual Studio Code, it is important to understand the key differences between these two tools for web development.

Environment Setup: Laravel Homestead is a pre-packaged Vagrant box specifically for Laravel development, providing a consistent development environment. Visual Studio Code, on the other hand, is a code editor that can be used for various programming languages and does not come with a pre-configured environment.
Integrated Features: Visual Studio Code offers a range of integrated features such as IntelliSense, debugging, and Git integration within the editor itself. Laravel Homestead, being a virtual machine, focuses mainly on providing a standardized environment for Laravel projects.
Compatibility: Laravel Homestead is optimized for Laravel projects and may not be as suitable for other types of projects. Visual Studio Code, being a versatile code editor, can be used for a wide range of programming projects beyond just Laravel.
Resource Consumption: Laravel Homestead, being a virtual machine, requires more resources to run compared to Visual Studio Code, which is a lightweight code editor. Developers with limited system resources may find Visual Studio Code more efficient.
Learning Curve: Setting up Laravel Homestead and working with a virtual machine may have a steeper learning curve compared to Visual Studio Code, which is relatively easier to set up and use for developers of all skill levels.
Community Support: Visual Studio Code, being a widely used code editor, has a larger community of developers contributing extensions and providing support compared to Laravel Homestead, which is more specialized for Laravel development.

In Summary, Laravel Homestead provides a specialized development environment for Laravel projects, while Visual Studio Code offers a versatile code editor with integrated features for various programming languages.

Decisions about Laravel Homestead and Visual Studio Code

Samriddhi Sinha

Machine Learning Engineer at Chefling · Sep 26, 2020 | 6 upvotes · 1M views

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Lightweight and versatile. Huge library of extensions that enable you to integrate a host of services to your development environment. VS Code's biggest strength is its library of extensions which enables it to directly compete with every single major IDE for almost all major programming languages.

Kamaleshwar BN

Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · Jul 8, 2020 | 12 upvotes · 1.3M views

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over

Visual Studio Code became famous over the past 3+ years I believe. The clean UI, easy to use UX and the plethora of integrations made it a very easy decision for us. Our gripe with Sublime was probably only the UX side. VSCode has not failed us till now, and still is able to support our development env without any significant effort.

Goland being paid, as well as built only for Go seemed like a significant limitation to not consider it.

Simon Ibssa

Student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo · Jan 9, 2020 | 2 upvotes · 1.2M views

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Visual Studio Code

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Sublime Text

My Stack

I decided to choose VSCode over Sublime text for my Systems Programming class in C. What I love about VSCode is its awesome ability to add extensions. Intellisense is a beautiful debugger, and Remote SSH allows me to login and make real-time changes in VSCode to files on my university server. This is an awesome alternative to going back and forth on pushing/pulling code and logging into servers in the terminal. Great choice for anyone interested in C programming!

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Pros of Laravel Homestead

Pros of Visual Studio Code

19
Easy to setup
13
Native enviroment
1
Cool if you finally get it set up 4 Win10 by night Devs

340
Powerful multilanguage IDE
308
Fast
193
Front-end develop out of the box
158
Support TypeScript IntelliSense
142
Very basic but free
126
Git integration
106
Intellisense
78
Faster than Atom
53
Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration
45
Great Refactoring Tools
44
Good Plugins
42
Terminal
38
Superb markdown support
36
Open Source
35
Extensions
26
Awesome UI
26
Large & up-to-date extension community
24
Powerful and fast
22
Portable
18
Best code editor
18
Best editor
17
Easy to get started with
15
Lots of extensions
15
Good for begginers
15
Crossplatform
15
Built on Electron
14
Extensions for everything
14
Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
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All Languages Support
13
Easy to use and learn
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"fast, stable & easy to use"
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Extensible
11
Ui design is great
11
Totally customizable
11
Git out of the box
11
Useful for begginer
11
Faster edit for slow computer
10
SSH support
10
Great community
10
Fast Startup
9
Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
9
Great language support
9
Powerful Debugger
9
It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
8
Can compile and run .py files
8
Python extension is fast
7
Features rich
7
Great document formater
6
He is not Michael
6
Extension Echosystem
6
She is not Rachel
6
Awesome multi cursor support
5
VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
5
Language server client
5
SFTP Workspace
5
Very proffesional
5
Easy azure
4
Has better support and more extentions for debugging
4
Supports lots of operating systems
4
Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
4
Virtualenv integration
3
Better autocompletes than Atom
3
Has more than enough languages for any developer
3
'batteries included'
3
More tools to integrate with vs
3
Emmet preinstalled
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VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
2
CMake support with autocomplete
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Microsoft
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Customizable
2
Light
2
Big extension marketplace
2
Fast and ruby is built right in
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Cons of Laravel Homestead

Cons of Visual Studio Code

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Slow startup
29
Resource hog at times
20
Poor refactoring
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Poor UI Designer
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Weak Ui design tools
10
Poor autocomplete
8
Super Slow
8
Huge cpu usage with few installed extension
8
Microsoft sends telemetry data
7
Poor in PHP
6
It's MicroSoft
3
Poor in Python
3
No Built in Browser Preview
3
No color Intergrator
3
Very basic for java development and buggy at times
3
No built in live Preview
3
Electron
2
Bad Plugin Architecture
2
Powered by Electron
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Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes
1
Slow C++ Language Server

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What is Laravel Homestead?

Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant "box" that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, HHVM, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. Homestead runs on any Windows, Mac, or Linux system, and includes the Nginx web server, PHP 5.6, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Memcached, and all of the other goodies you need to develop amazing Laravel applications.

What is Visual Studio Code?

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

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What are some alternatives to Laravel Homestead and Visual Studio Code?

Docker

The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

XAMPP

It consists mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.

PuPHPet

It is a web application that allows you to easily and quickly generate custom Vagrant and Puppet controlled virtual machines.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

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Laravel Homestead vs Visual Studio Code

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