Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review The Welkin Suite is a great IDE compared to the alternatives out there. If you need to code in Salesforce and you want a mostly seamless environment, then The Welkin Suite is the best option available, in my opinion. I have also been using it for Apex Tests and find that the tools are really good for measuring code coverage and highlighting those areas that are uncovered.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review Local History - Without having to setup GitHub this has been a time saver! AutoComplete Saves the entire project at once Read full review Cons 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. Read full review It would be nice if IDE feature releases were timed to coincide with Salesforce releases (i.e. make Lightning Web Components available on the day they become available in Salesforce instances). The IDE can be a bit buggy especially when you have several windows of the IDE open to different Salesforce instances at the same time on one machine. Sometimes, when you click to retrieve your data too soon, before the program has a chance to ask you to connect to the instance, it can cause the IDE to freeze. Read full review Likelihood to Renew It's an irreplaceable part of my toolkit and isn't that expensive per year.
Read full review Usability It's easy to teach new users the extreme basics to get them working, then let them figure out little tips, tricks, shortcuts, refactorings, and other features on their own.
Read full review Support Rating 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.
Read full review In general, when you need support there is someone there to give you an answer. I think there could be an improvement in this area, but it's hard to provide a substantial amount of support for a product that is charging roughly $15 a month. Do I feel I get more than $15 worth of support value when I need to request it? Yes.
Read full review Implementation Rating Highly recommend the JetBrains Toolbox, it remembers your recent projects and launches from the task bar.
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review The ability to recover and compare to local history Reliable vs. open source alternatives! Read full review ScreenShots