How to safely remove Laravel Debugbar - php

Question

I have a Laravel application that was not developed by me. There is some weird bar at the bottom of each page, it is some type of Laravel debugger tool.
I believe it is stored in storage/debugger. Is there a safe way I can go about checking to see if this is actually it and if so can I delete this type of tool without it affecting the application? Does anybody know what this thing is if so any advice on how to remove this safely would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Best option:
Add DEBUGBAR_ENABLED=false to your .env
This has some advantage:
The debugbar is totally disabled
You can keep APP_DEBUG=true, hence still keep error details for local development
It is not tracked by git

Answer 2

To completely disable the debugger
In .env
APP_DEBUG=false # No error reporting at all
Disable the debugger but still wants to receive Errors (**Recommended way)
In .env
DEBUGBAR_ENABLED=false # deguger is disabled but error reporting works
FYI: Once you changed the values on .env and it didn't reflex, clear the config using php artisan config:clear or php artisan optimize:clear
Useful Links
Errors & Logging Laravel Docs 9.x
Laravel Debugbar

Answer 3

Remove Laravel Debugbar
- If you want to totally remove the package, then do these steps:
$ composer remove vendor/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar
$ composer update
Disable Laravel Debugbar
Option 1: Via Env File
- If you want disable the package, without it getting tracked by Git:
Navigate to your .env file
And put DEBUGBAR_ENABLED = FALSE
Option 2: Via AppServiceProvider
- From #Ohgodwhy's answer
- FYI: This will be tracked by Git. - #Salam
Navigate to app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php
Put this code \Debugbar::disable();
class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
public function boot()
{
\Debugbar::disable();
}
}

Answer 4

Enabling/Disabling on run time.
You can enable or disable the debugbar during run time.
Add this into your .env file:
DEBUGBAR_ENABLED = FALSE
In runtime:
\Debugbar::enable();
\Debugbar::disable();
Or remove everything
composer remove barryvdh/laravel-debugbar

Answer 5

You can execute composer remove barryvdh/laravel-debugbar to permanently remove it.
Note you can also just disable the debug bar if you don't want it:
Just put \Debugbar::disable(); in your AppServiceProvider.

Answer 6

I am using this way:
In config/debugbar.php
'inject' => false, // this remove Inject Debugbar in Response
In this way I am keeping .php error enable.
Another way is to disable completely.
'enabled' => false,
To enable just debug-bar and disable it for session and Ajax request
'enabled' => true,
....
'storage' => [
'enabled' => false, // DebugBar stores data for session/ajax requests.
or
'capture_ajax' => false,

Answer 7

I removed barryvdh/laravel-debugbar from my composer.json.
When I wanted to do composer install or composer update or even php artisan config:cache I got error
[Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalThrowableError]
Class 'Barryvdh\Debugbar\ServiceProvider' not found
If fact the solution was removing boostrap/cache/config.php, because barryvdh/laravel-debugbar was cached (php artisan config:cache could not remove it)
Good luck!

Answer 8

It needs to be also removed in the providers: app/config/app.php
After:
composer remove vendor/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar
composer update
remove the line:
Barryvdh\Debugbar\ServiceProvider in app/config/app.php.
Also these folders can be deleted:
app/config/packages/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar/config.php
another Debugbar-related file somewhere under app/storage/...

Answer 9

Also can be removed adding this to your .css file
.phpdebugbar{
display: none;
}