VS Code Autocomplete

[godismyjudge95]

Wondering if anyone has figured out a way to get VS Code autocomplete working with PHP Intelephense (paid version)?

I've spent about an hour googling and searching through various issues on github for pest and intelephense. The only thing I could find that was somewhat relevant was this: #5

Based off of that issue I was able to get autocomplete working by adding this to the beginning of all my tests:

/** @var TestCase $this */

This seems like a really brute force method to get autocomplete working. So I was wondering if the mentioned fix was ever merged: #5 (comment)

[nunomaduro]

@godismyjudge95 I think to only way to get autocomplete properly working on VS Code, is having someone developing a plugin.

[johnRivs]

@godismyjudge95 How exactly did you get that working? Which TestCase are you importing and where are you putting it?

[godismyjudge95]

@johnRivs
There is a "base" test case in the tests folder that is initially there when Laravel is installed. That is what the TestCase is referring to.
To get VS Code to autocomplete properly, I was putting the comment I mentioned above inside each test like so:

it('can autocomplete in vs code', function () {
    /** @var TestCase $this */
    
    $this->assertTrue(true);
});

By adding the comment to each of my tests I got proper autocompletion only inside the test itself. Not sure if it is required to work but I also use laravel ide helper.

[bn-l]

The full path to the namespace seems to work better:

test('confirm password screen can be rendered', function () {
    /** @var Tests\TestCase $this */
    
    $user = User::factory()->create();

    $response = $this->actingAs($user)->get('/confirm-password');

    

    $response->assertStatus(200);
});

[eduwass]

Stumbled into this whilst developing a solution for this in v4, you might wanna check this out!
https://github.com/eduwass/pest-autocomplete-support