Vscode is a fucking turd. Edit replace in files is not finding shit that is clearly there. Why are all developer tools big piles of fucking shit. Time to drink. Fuck this shit.

Sounds heavily like pebcak to me

The problem started after I closed and reopened the project. wtf. How is that pebcak. These tools are all shit. Go back to notepad++ or vim. Jesus.

A poor workman blames his tools. I guess that makes me a poor workman. Fuck all these tools. Eclipse, Intellij, Sql developer and now vscode. Over engineered creatures of creeping featuritis can all eat shit and die.

Works on my machine

Last 2 sentences should be universal sentiment.

Well, personally, I love PhpStorm. I paid like $400 for a 3-year license, and it was money well spent tbh.

Some people are against paid tool, but Jetbrain IDEs got my vote too. I have used them for years, and they never failed me. They have every tool and features within my grab. Their file watcher tool is one of the feature that I love most. VSCode have a similar tool made by some unknown third party, and it sucks.