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title: 'Be friends with your IDE'
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thread_slug: laravel-clean-code-tactics
author_username: samuelstancl
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created_at: 2020-06-16T09:40:46+00:00
slug: be-friends-with-your-ide
---

Install extensions, write annotations, use typehints. Your IDE will help you with getting your code working correctly, which lets you spend more energy on writing code that's also readable.