When developing a web service, you would usually test it by sending all kinds of HTTP requests to it and examining what’s returned. In PhpStorm, you can do this directly in the code editor.
In this post, we’ll use the github.com/JetBrains/phpstorm-http-client-tutorial example project to demonstrate. You can clone it and navigate through its commit history to get to the corresponding phase of this overview. For each phase, run composer update to install and update what’s required, and then composer start to start the PHP web server.
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