Ray is a desktop program for macOS and Windows that shows debugging data in a given window. When I reviewed Ray, I was dismissed by the ability to pause implementation to scrutinize information delivered to Ray--the capability to inspect the condition of database documents in the center of a petition is outstanding!

Ray will be a wonderful companion for your PHP workflow. Perhaps you will discover that it's a lot easier to begin with than XDebug or other alternative approaches you have used for code debugging.

Ray Debugger for PHP Great Features:

• A framework-agnostic PHP package and Laravel package to start logging from your apps to the Ray desktop app
• Define colors of logs to filter by various colors that relate to debugging code
• Measure performance and see the output in Ray
• Ability to pause code to inspect data, API calls, etc. before proceeding
• Display desktop notifications from Ray PHP debugging code
• See the caller and entire call stack from a certain point in the code
• Laravel-specific helpers that aid debugging in Laravel apps:
  • Clean model debug output with attribute values
  • Send database queries to Ray
  • Ray receives calls to the Laravel logger automatically
  • Displays mailable automatically
  • Manual control over sending mailable
  • Use Ray to debug data in blade views
  • Show events fired during execution