Adding the Laravel Plugin to PhpStorm

The Laravel plugin assists with Blade templates including the new Laravel 5.4 update which includes slots and components.

Download the plugin for PhpStorm.

Go to Jetbrains and locate the plugin. https://plugins.jetbrains.com/idea/plugin/7532-laravel-plugin

Save to your computer somewhere and remeber where this is.  Desktop is easy.

Add the plugin to PhpStorm

Go to settings > plugins and click the button down the bottom. ‘Install plugin from disk…’

Locate the plugin Laravel.jar you have saved somewhere and select and install it.

Restart PhpStorm

Activate the plugin for your project.

Open the project you want to use the Laravel plugin for. Obviously this should be a Laravel project.

Settings > languages & frameworks > Php > Laravel

Check the ‘Enable plugin for this project’. Apply / OK.

And you are done.