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    WebStorm

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AWebStorm is an integrated development environment (IDE) by JetBrains. Designed for JavaScript and TypeScript development, WebStorm also aims to make it easy to tackle the most challenging tasks. Whether resolving Git merge conflicts or renaming a symbol across multiple files, it takes just a few clicks.

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    WebStorm
    Editions & Modules
    Individual Non-Commercial
    $0
    per year
    Individual
    $6.90
    per month
    Bussiness
    $15.90
    per month per user
    Individual
    $69
    per year
    Business
    $159
    per year per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    WebStorm
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    WebStorm
    Considered Both Products
    JetBrains
    Chose WebStorm
    The softwares listed are used for different aspects to the company. YouTrack, is also a Jetbrains product and is good for product management. All the products are great for what they are supposed to be doing. WebStorm is just the ideal environment for us to build our app. It’s …
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    The above mentioned IDEs/editors are light weight and do not eat up that much RAM but WebStorm is clearly superior when it comes to great development, maintainability, easy testing and debugging of a software project. Many advanced features with syntax suggestions, language …
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    While vscode is a great product by itself, I prefer WebStorm as I found it more intuitive to use out of the box. I also feel error detection and linting is producing better results on WebStorm. Keeping an IDE with out-of-the-box keybinding and common plugins allows me …
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    VS Code is free and more popular. Popularity helps in that you can do pair programming more easily because you all use the same [tool]. It's also easier when trying to guide someone (especially a junior developer).
    However, Webstorm comes with more out-of-the-box and is …
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    Microsoft VS code has some similar features as WebStorm, but too basic and lack of a lot of "in-depth" features, it is not kind of "All-In-One" IDE officially speaking, so eventually we find out WebStorm meets our needs much better
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    Sublime is light weight but it is not powerful as like WebStorm.
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    Atom is free to use, unlike WebStorm. However, as it is free it is also open-source. The drawback is that improving and maintaining the product can take time and updates are not as frequent as in WebStorm. Atom's UI is very appealing and customizable. Atom also has GitHub …
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    I like WebStorm better because I don't have to spend time hunting down "useful plugins" to add to VS Code. But I'm biased because I have a lot more experience with WebStorm.
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    The only reason we sometimes use Sublime is that it manages to cover basic development needs while being to be very fast and light. WebStorm is heavier on resources, but you can't compare it with Sublime, because WebStorm is an IDE, and therefore it provides more features and …
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    I have loved using WebStorm because it has so many features that are helpful not only to those just starting out, but also to veteran programmers. WebStorm also has free educational licensing, which has been integral in creating a professional environment in my classroom. It …
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    IntelliJ WebStorm is a very smart workbench compared with other solutions available in the market, and it saves a lot of developers time in doing their tasks.
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    For Javascript projects, particularly Angular projects, WebStorm is superior to any other IDE I've used. WebStorm has been easier to pick up and learn straight out of the box. Visual Studio Code might be able to do some of the same things, but not without a lot more setup and …
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    I selected IntelliJ WebStorm mostly for legacy issues and I'm used/loyal to it. I guess if I started today, no strings attached I don't know if I'd be using it. It seems the main competitor is Visual Studio Code. Developers like it because it's fast and simple which is an area …
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    IntelliJ WebStorm in comparison with Visual Studio Code:
    • More features.
    • A richer set of refactoring capabilities.
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    WebStorm is the best IDE for javascript over cloud9 and NetBeans which have traditionally supported a variety of languages with no specific specialty. While WebStorm has a cost associated per license, it is bar none when it comes to an integrated development environment needed …
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    WebStorm offers full IDE features for web development that surpasses the best text editors, and I find it has better features than even VS Code still.
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    In my mind, WebStorm offers the best combination of features and flexibility that puts it ahead of all of the competition for many use cases.
    I still use Visual Studio Code for a lot of things, but as a project IDE, WebStorm offers a lot of benefits in the realm of built-in …
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    WebStorm is an excellent option but for people who are already into IDEA products. It is costly and resource-intensive and hence might not be favorable to the open source developer groups out there. Though it has many enterprise features like version control integration and …
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    While Visual Studio is a great toll to develop our C# back-end application, we found that using this one to develop our front-end web application was not suitable.
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    The only other applications that I've used comparable to IntelliJ Webstorm have been Aptana Studio and Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Personally, I found Visual Studio Code too complicated. I never had the time to get around the learning curve of that IDE, since I'm so busy at …
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    More configurable.
    Comes with code liners ( no plugin is needed)
    Karma test runner is supported by default
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    Others are free IntelliJ WebStorm is not.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    WebStorm
    Small Businesses
    Visual Studio
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    PyCharm
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IntelliJ IDEA
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    WebStorm
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (31 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    WebStorm
    Likelihood to Recommend
    JetBrains
    Groups that use a [variety] of development environments (.net, python, web), Jebrain's products and Webstorm, in particular, are a great choice for productivity. If your developers are accustom to another IDE it might be better for all to sync on the same one. I wouldn't take the cost aspect as a consideration. A productive developer is far more important.
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    Pros
    JetBrains
    • Includes a built in spell checker to eliminate time wasted searching for small mistakes.
    • Provides a drop down menu of options complete with keyboard shortcuts that allow for streamlined programming.
    • Identifies when variables are named differently, allowing for cohesive work without the scrolling.
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    Cons
    JetBrains
    • The popup file search sometimes frustrates me. It caps the number of results, and sometimes it isn't clear that it simply stopped looking. I also used to have trouble finding string occurrences that I knew were in my project, but I think they've made improvements in this area recently.
    • Being a AAA IDE, WebStorm can be a memory hog. If I don't kill it every few days, it can get really slow. I would love to see performance improvements.
    • Speaking of performance, WebStorm can take a long time to launch. I'd like to see improvements in launch times.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    JetBrains
    It's an irreplaceable part of my toolkit and isn't that expensive per year.
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    Usability
    JetBrains
    Great in debugging, testing, developing and maintaining softwares in a number of languages. Great support for many languages and their syntaxes. Great support of many third party extensions and plugins like GIT and html plugins. The RAM usage of WebStorm however could be really improved, it literally takes almost all of the RAM of my machine with 16GB RAM
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    Support Rating
    JetBrains
    I gave this rating because I have never needed their customer support, which is the highest level of support I suppose. When a product works just fine out of the box and everything you may need is well documented, it's a paradise for the customer. But I've seen some questions asked on their portal, and I've seen thorough answers given to the questions and the willingness to support the customer with follow-ups and everything else.
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    Implementation Rating
    JetBrains
    Highly recommend the JetBrains Toolbox, it remembers your recent projects and launches from the task bar.
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    Alternatives Considered
    JetBrains
    I think WebStorm is way ahead of open-source editors. Please don't get me wrong, I love open-source. But the other free editors have a lot of configuration which blocks my whole coding experience. Take "Atom" for example. I used it for about 3 months, but in that time I had to update the plugins hundreds of time, and for every little thing (e.g. linter) I had to download a community plugin, and with each plugin atom would get a little slow. Take "Eclipse" for another example, which is very suited for Java, but not so suited for JavaScript. Sublime was good, but WebStorm comes with many exciting features that I did not find in sublime/notepad.
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    Return on Investment
    JetBrains
    • Saves lot of time when we are finding the text or files.
    • Easy to work with for support projects.
    • Nice code completion feature.
    • It's all in one solution for both front end, back end and database solution to work with.
    • Initial learning curve is required to use the workbench.
    • Documentation can be improved better probably adding videos, would be helpful for visual person.
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