So I will go ahead and enable it. And we'll give that a restart, and we're off to the races. Cool. So now, of course, I could create a brand new project. However, behind the scenes, I installed a fresh copy of Laravel 10 through Composer. So I will open that now. Okay, so let's see what we get out of the box. I will close README, open up my project. Here's my Laravel folder.

I will close README, open up my project. Here's my Laravel folder. And, yeah, why don't we go into, how about something like App, Models, User? And this is what we get. And you know what? To be honest, I think it looks pretty good out of the box. It looks great, in fact. But, of course, a key thing to understand with phpStorm is that flexibility and configurability.

I think the sidebar is a bit too wide, so I will reduce that. And then let's go into PHPStorm Settings, or I can hit Command, Comma on a Mac. And, yeah, at this point, let's go ahead and configure your preferred font and size and line height. So, actually, as it turns out, JetBrains Mono is the default, and I really like it. But if you prefer something like Menlo or Plex Mono,

It's a preference thing. So now let's wrap up by making just a few more visual tweaks that, I don't know, that cater to my own quirks and preferences. And you may disagree. So why don't you come along for the ride and see what you think. First up, these breadcrumbs at the bottom, they look nice, but I don't reference them too often. So I'd prefer to hide that. Let's right-click, Appearance, Breadcrumbs, and choose Don't Show.

And yeah, you can take this further if you like, but I think you get the idea. All of this comes down to personality, so make sure that PHPStorm matches yours. Thank you.