Laravel Debugging with Xdebug

When to Apply

Activate this skill when:

• Debugging application errors or unexpected behavior
• Investigating 500 errors, exceptions, or fatal errors
• Inspecting variables during code execution
• Tracing request flow through routes, controllers, middleware
• Debugging queue jobs, listeners, or workers
• Analyzing Eloquent query performance and N+1 problems
• Testing API endpoints interactively
• Troubleshooting authentication, authorization, or validation issues
• User mentions: debug, breakpoint, step through, Xdebug, inspect variables, dd(), dump()

Prerequisites