# Developer Environment

The following points are only recommendations to help with the development process. Support for other settings or tools cannot be guaranteed.

## IDE/Editor

The following IDEs and editors are recommended

1. PHPStorm
2. Visual Studio Code
    1. Markdown All in One
    2. PHP Debug
    3. PHP IntelliSense
    4. PHP Server
    5. PHPUnit
    6. SVG Viewer

## Tools

The following tools are important to test the application and to ensure the code quality. The configurations and sample shell executions can be found in the `Build` directory. These tools are also downloaded during the setup process of the `buildProject.sh` script (see installation documentation).

* composer
* phploc
* phpunit
* phpcs
* phpmd
* phpmetrics
* pdepend
* documentor
* phpstan
* phan