#WEBSTORM REMOTE DEVELOPMENT INSTALL#
#WEBSTORM REMOTE DEVELOPMENT CODE#

As soon as the VPS was upgraded, the performance seemed to be ok on the server. With 8 students, this added up to be 64Gb of RAM. Add to this the specs of PHPStorm itself, the MySQL database, PHP-FPM instance and a bit more, and I quickly concluded this required about 8Gb of memory. So, with Magento, I often feel that you need at least 4Gb of memory assigned to the Magento project.

The simple recommendation for running PHPStorm via JetBrains Gateway is to have the same specs on the server as you would normally need on the client. It seemed 32Gb of RAM was not good enough. However, the more students were actively running on the same server, the slower things became (duh). I then supplied the student with the right SSH key.Įither by using the JetBrains Gateway stand-alone app or by using the Remote Development feature in PHPStorm, students were able to connect quickly and this proved to be a success.

#WEBSTORM REMOTE DEVELOPMENT INSTALL#

Next, I added a script to create user accounts, install & setup & configure Magento on the home-folder of that user, configure SSH authentication. And because almost all of them had laptops with bad specs (only 4Gb of RAM, no SSD drive, etcetera), I setup a VPS with 32Gb of RAM with plenty of SSD space. My actual trial with JetBrains Gateway started about half a year ago, when I was guiding a group of new Magento developers. There are plenty of tools, but when it came to JetBrains Gateway, I really felt that it could be used to overcome the problem of newcomers needing a working development environment before they could get started. And I've worked with tools like TeamCity and YouTrack briefly. Obviously there are all the great plugins shipped within PHPStorm.

#WEBSTORM REMOTE DEVELOPMENT CODE#

I played around with Code With Me (which got really crazy when 6 devs start collaborating on the same files). JetBrains, being the company behind PHPStorm and WebStorm, has more features that could be interesting. However, in this case, the actual program of PHPStorm is installed remotely as well. It sounds a bit similar to the option of PHPStorm to connect to a remote project using SSH. JetBrains Gateway allows you to run PHPStorm on a server and then use the JetBrains Gateway client to connect to it using SSH. I came across JetBrains Gateway and asked myself whether it would allow for developers to start coding without installing the application first.

While training Magento and Shopware developers, I've been exploring various products to enhance the course.

Webstorm remote development