
I would recommend that you head over to and look at one of their installation guides, because it will be different for most people. This often helps to figure out why it is not working.) Look at the configs I am providing, which will enable a different the XDebug log level. (If you have it already installed and are just here, because the other tutorial didn't work, then I have a tip for you. The first and the second step can sometimes be relatively tricky to get right, however I am confident if you follow my instructions you will get it to work. Install xdebug.php-debug for VS Code released by XDebug.The ability to pause the execution is often crucial to understand how the code works and where the bug is.

To be able to debug Laravel applications during development will give you a huge advantage, compared to your colleagues who are struggling their way through using echo or print_r statements.
