Laravel Auth::user() has no code completion for User model functions

Question

I am using Laravel and PHPStorm.

The auto completion works for all models, just not for the 'User', when I call it with Auth::user().

When I call the Auth::user() I get the right user object, but the return type of Auth::user() is Authenticatable and not User. So I get no code completion for my user object which is very anoying because I use it very often. I think the problem has something to do with the return type of Auth::user() because it is Authenticatable and not User.

In the config/auth.php I already set the model to app/User::class.

Can you tell me how to cast the return value to the User model?

In this example you can see the behaviour.

Answer 1

Add laravel-ide-helper package to your project - https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper.

The package generates a help file for the IDE with all the Facades and their functions. It fixes the Facades auto-completion so Auth::user() is fixes too

Answer 2

Auth::user()   

Auth is an Alias from ServiceProviders array in config/app.php if you directly use use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth; you will get a nice completion in PHPstorm as well as Sublime but it depends on the IDE.