PHP step debugging outside the browser using XDebug, PHPStorm, the PHP dev server and httpie

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Stuff I did to debug during API dev on my local machine

Run the PHP dev server on your given port

php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t public public/index.php

In httpie, pass ?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=foobar on the query string with the request

http -v POST 0.0.0.0:8080/ XDEBUG_SESSION_START==foobar

XDebug ini settings

xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000

Hit the "Start Listening for PHP Debug connections" icon in PHPStorm