How to run Laravel Pint on save in PhpStorm

Here is your short guide on how to configure PhpStorm to run Laravel Pint on save to format your PHP files. I use this for every project to keep my PHP files clean.

Installing Laravel Pint

Laravel Pint is installed upon creating a new Laravel project, so installing it might not be necessary. Check your composer.json file to see if it's there.

If not, you can install Laravel Pint like so:

composer require laravel/pint --dev

Done? Let's roll.

Configuring PhpStorm

In order to run Laravel Pint manually, you can run the following command:

./vendor/bin/pint

If you are like me, you don't want to run this command every time you want to format your files. Instead, let's configure PhpStorm so this command runs every time we hit the save button.

Open PhpStorm's settings (command + ,) and go to Tools > Actions on Save > File Watcher > Configure, and fill in the following fields:

Finally, enable Reformat code (make sure you exclude PHP files), Optimize imports (optional), and Rearrange code (optional).

When hitting save, Laravel Pint should now format your code.

If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to reach out to me.

Thanks,

Lars