From the course: Accelerating Laravel API Development with AI: From Specification to Testing
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Setting up your IDE for AI - Laravel Tutorial
From the course: Accelerating Laravel API Development with AI: From Specification to Testing
Setting up your IDE for AI
- [Instructor] GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant. By limiting scope to code, this AI is most useful for code completion, identifying bugs, and understanding code. This is the github.com Copilot features page. There's some interesting screenshots, stats examples, showing you how amazing Copilot is. More valuable are the GitHub Copilot docs. You'll probably find that you interface with Copilot in your IDE, but it's also available via command line and in GitHub mobile. Broadly, Copilot does two things, code completion and chat. While there are different paid plans for Copilot, I'll be talking about the individual plan, which was recently made free in this course. Once you've signed up for Copilot, you'll need to enable it in your IDE. This course is using Codespaces, and enabling Copilot only requires adding the Copilot extension. The same holds true for the desktop version of Visual Studio Code. A Copilot extension can also be installed in JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse, and more. Once…