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WebStorm is an integrated development environment for JavaScript and related technologies. Like other JetBrains IDEs, it aims to make the development experience more enjoyable, automating routine work and helping users handle complex tasks.
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What is WebStorm?
WebStorm is an integrated development environment for JavaScript and related technologies. Like other JetBrains IDEs, it aims to make the development experience more enjoyable, automating routine work and helping users handle complex tasks.
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| Mobile Application | No |
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The most common users of WebStorm are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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WebStorm has proven to be a highly valuable tool for developers across various scenarios. Its ability to enhance productivity and seamless integration with different development environments make it a top choice among programmers. Many users have praised the comprehensive set of pre-configured features and abilities, significantly reducing the need for additional plugins or configurations. The wide adoption of WebStorm in computer science classes speaks to its accessibility and usefulness for projects of varying complexity, making it a preferred IDE even after graduation.
One of the standout use cases of WebStorm is its effectiveness in developing single-page applications, Angular projects, and NodeJS projects. Its support for all major frameworks, source control systems, package managers, testing tools, and a wide range of plugins makes it an incredibly versatile tool for development purposes. It serves not just as an editor but also as a debugger, version control tool, and more, acting as the primary IDE for entire organizations working on different projects.
Additionally, WebStorm is highly valued by front-end developers who require enterprise features like quick code generation, debugging capabilities, and easy integration with version control systems such as Git. The IDE's customization options that cater to individual developer preferences further contribute to its appeal. Teams have found great value in using WebStorm to increase speed, efficiency, and reduce bugs in JavaScript-based applications. Collaborative work is made easier with WebStorm's centralized tool that provides consistent features and facilitates problem-solving and code viewing.
Furthermore, WebStorm's flexibility extends beyond web development as it can be used alongside other IDEs like Eclipse and PyCharm/Spyder for Java, Python, and front-end development. It has become a go-to choice for healthcare-related applications due to its reliability and efficiency in providing a conducive development environment. Overall, WebStorm has entrenched itself as the standard IDE for web application development with support for various languages, frameworks like React, Vue, Angular, as well as other essential web technologies.
Based on the user reviews, the most common recommendations for WebStorm are to try it out, especially if you have an edu email address and can access the free version. They also suggest purchasing a full IntelliJ license for access to other JetBrains products. Additionally, users recommend being patient while WebStorm indexes your files.
For Visual Studio Code, the most common recommendations are to give it a try, especially if you are a student or willing to pay for it. Users also recommend using Visual Studio Code if you need a good IDE with testing, version control system, etc. Furthermore, users think that Visual Studio Code can change your coding experience for the better.
In summary, users recommend trying out both WebStorm and Visual Studio Code to see if they meet your specific needs and preferences in terms of features, ease of use, and compatibility with your programming stack.
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I have a personal affinity to Jetbrain products. I've tried other IDE's but always find myself being far more productive when using Jetbrain products in general and Webstorm in particular. It helps developers [be more productive without changing] experiences and the general setup between development environments (web, .net, Java, python etc...). It also comes out of the box with a clear set [of] good configurations and abilities without having to add [...] many plugins or info. Webstorm has been around for years and perfected [its] integration with the JavaScript ecosystem (web + node).
- Keeping up with new tools / language changes / web frameworks
- Fast and efficient
- Awesome git support and diffing
- Debugging is awesome
- Great JavaScript support (Web + NodeJS)
- Sync configurations via your account
- Git graph and rebase are hard to manage (look at GitKraken for a good improvement on that)
- Favorites and bookmarks could be more useful (You can't create directories for bookmarks and favorites are on files)
April 15, 2021
WebStorm, what else?
In the IT and R&D department of our company, for IDE selection, we use Eclipse for Java/J2EE application development, PyCharm/Spyder for Python application development, and we equip our front-end developers with the WebStorm for our modern SPA development. We use node.js to implement server side service, as it is java script based, we also use WebStorm as the standard JS IDE. Karma + Mocha are our standard testing framework for our SPA, which is seamlessly integrated into the WebStorm already
- As the product of the JetBean, the UI is very familiar as the famous IntelliJ
- I don't see any other JS IDE can be compared with WebStrom, from the feature richness + plug-in + community support
- The JS static code scanning out of the box is very handy
- Auto fix is also very productive feature to mention
- It by default has well integration with Angular, TypeScript, Vue, React
- Didn't find any apparent issue overall, except sometimes the WebStorm is running too many default validation check in the backend and response is slow, typically when we keep WebStorm running for some time, and if we restart the WebStorm it will take long time to be "warm up", perhaps, some JetBean team can consider some performance improvement
April 08, 2021
Excellent IDE for modern JavaScript Frameworks
I use WebStorm to develop AngularJS and Angular applications. It is not a department-wide standard, but I made the case to purchase my own license based on my experience with other JetBrains products, and it's a key part of my development process.
- Built in support for multiple technologies.
- Excellent debugger.
- Lots of plugins.
- Speed and responsiveness.
- Every now and then the indexer takes over and slows things down.
February 18, 2020
A paradise for web development!
This product is the main IDE used by the entire organization on different projects. It is used in nearly every phase of our software development.
- Rich features.
- Reliability.
- Resource heavy.
- UX is a bit complicated.
December 04, 2019
Simple and Smart IDE
IntelliJ WebStorm is used as an integrated workbench to work on javascript projects both on client-side and server-side applications. It used as per the developer's interest in IDE. It's being used to develop health-care related applications.
- Custom find functionality for a particular text in directory.
- Git integration feature is very handy.
- Smart auto completion of the code.
- Typescript support.
- Pattern matching text feature integration.
- Ability to work on multiple projects with multiple windows of application opened.
- Nice UI.
- It can do a lot with providing coding insights improving the developer to find the mistakes using automation features.
- IDE becomes slow when we are working on projects with large number of files.
- Integration of more themes.
- Ability to install more plugins which will help developer to workbench customize as per their needs.
November 26, 2019
WebStorm, a AAA IDE that is perfect for any Javascript project, particularly Angular and NodeJs projects
We use WebStorm to develop our Single Page Application (SPA) projects, particular Angular projects. We also use it for any NodeJs projects. WebStorm is perfect for any Javascript project. It is a AAA IDE with support for all major frameworks, source control systems, package managers, testing tools, and a host of plug-ins.
- Angular development - built-in support for tslint allows your team to code to a single standard.
- NodeJs testing - Mocha and Chai testing is a breeze for my Node unit tests.
- Emmet support for HTML makes for speedy prototyping.
- The file difference utilities are some of the best I've used for my Github merge conflicts. They are really focused around source control conflict scenarios instead of the "can be used for" mentality of other IDEs.
- 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.
October 22, 2019
Good product overall, needs a little bit more attention to bugs, fewer features and more stability/performance.
We are a small startup with five people. We had several developers, however, I'm the only one using it. I'm using the IDE for frontend/backend web apps development.
- Find code
- Refactoring (rename file/variables/functions)
- Visual differences
- Merge and auto-merge non-conflicting code
- Concurrent multi-project support. Always some issues with that. Now the issue is that it's difficult to use the keyboard to focus on the current IDE window because the focus goes to other project windows
- For the longest time, there was an issue with the "Find in Path" dialog which didn't or couldn't be closed properly/easily
- Sometimes WebStorm reaches a point where it cannot find symbols. After restart and/or project reopen, it can
- Sometimes it becomes really slow and shows the macOS spinner. Then it needs to restart before working
- Restart takes a long time, especially when having several JS web apps project windows open. On my 2017 Macbook Pro it takes half a minute or so until it settles after starting
September 28, 2019
The One Tool for Web Development
IntelliJ WebStorm is our standard IDE for developing web applications with JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, HTML, CSS. We use it with a variety of frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular. Developers enjoy working with it for its great support for development, refactoring, autocompletion and a rich system of plugins that provide rich functionality, such as editing Markdown, AsciiDoc, YAML files and similar.
- Developing JavaScript.
- Developing HTML, CSS.
- Provide plugins with various additional functionality.
- Frequent updates with enhancements.
- Slower start than competitors.
- Slows down for large codebases.
- Onboarding new users require time for education.
Our entire dev team uses WebStorm as our primary IDE for Angular and AngularJS development. We develop an online, web-based service with a backend web API fronted by a large Angular/AngularJS application. We adopted WebStorm as a fully functional IDE after using more simple text editors previously, and this has improved developer productivity and product quality.
- Provides a smooth, efficient IDE for developing web applications. Performance is on par with other JetBrains products and doesn't impede productivity.
- Integrated refactoring and other language tools are comprehensive and useful. WebStorm does a good job of putting together the mess that Javascript can make, usually.
- Integrates with other JetBrains products, such as TeamCity, Upsource, etc.
- Great git integration and UI.
- When dealing with legacy Javascript/Typescript code, refactoring can be dangerous. eg. changing variable names across the entire project rather than just local scope.
- Versioning can be a bit of a nightmare. There is an official updater, but they tend to leave old versions hanging around, and I have found myself accidentally using a previously installed version without intending to.
February 08, 2019
The reigning champion in front-end IDEs
Our development team is utilizing IntelliJ WebStorm along with the other applications in the Jetbrains Toolbox. Typically, we use it when we are developing front-end libraries, such as Node.js modules, or other Javascript libraries and applications, all the way through to complete websites in some cases. We move over to PhpStorm or another tool if we need a server-side dynamic language, however.
- The coding assistance provided by WebStorm is the best around. It facilitates very rapid development without having to hunt through documentation all day.
- The breadth and depth of plugins, both from JetBrains and from the community, is incredible. There are plugins to do practically anything.
- It's cross-platform, and using the JetBrains Toolbox makes it so it can auto-update seamlessly without me needing to worry about it.
- The amount of languages and types of projects it can support is pretty staggering.
- WebStorm can be slow to start up, particularly if it has to reindex the site, it can end up slowing my entire computer down for a little while. This is compounded with having a lot of plugins active.
- WebStorm can be very resource-intensive. It will happily eat up as much memory as you give it, at least to a point. This is fine if you have a beefy development system, but if you don't have a lot of memory or other resources available, WebStorm can sometimes run quite slowly.
- Once in a while, using "Find in files" doesn't find certain text strings that do exist within project files. It's pretty rare, but it has caused a hassle a couple of times.
December 18, 2018
IntelliJ WebStorm, a great tool to develop in an efficient way
Here in my organization, we use IntelliJ to deploy internal and external front-end web applications using Angular. We use this software across all of or web developers and we really love it. WebStorm helps users to create faster and more efficient code and the fact that ReSharper is integrated in this software is just amazing.
- Integrates with ReSharper.
- Cross-platform.
- Quick to set up.
- They know what we want as programmers.
- CPU Consumer.
- Expensive.
- This software is proprietary and cannot be modified.
December 18, 2018
There's nothing bad that can be said about IntelliJ WebStorm if your web dev project leans on JavaScript
Currently, it is not listed as a corporate application that we use internally across all departments, but I believe some departments, including ours have purchased single or multi licenses for IntelliJ WebStorm. Within our department we do custom development, support and administration of enterprise web applications to support our corporate internal services. For us, WebStorm was the most practical IDE for us to use, as it accommodated all of our needs to do custom web development. We work a lot with JavaScript (NodeJS, Archibus API), so it's extremely useful for this. As well, we use Gitlab and the built-in plugins for WebStorm allow us to do everything within the IDE, instead of using multiple apps. <br>
- Plugins -- especially the Git integration
- Debuggings for JavaScript, which is very customization.
- Ability to use Flow
- Lots of cool syntax highlighting and code styling.
- A problem I have with a lot of IDEs is that they seem to go over-kill. Although not entirely a con, a dumbed down version of WebStorm would be useful.
- Subscription based license
November 28, 2018
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Local File history is a blessing. Code Debugging is very smooth. Best part is auto correct options. If you write the wrong, syntax it gives you a hint of what you should use instead.
- Integrated Version control system saves me lots of time to resolve conflicts and see different systems side by side.
- Customisable theme options are very cool and I can work in low light as well.
- Sometimes auto formatter creates big problems
- It's not free. You can have the trial version for a month, but the price is little bit high.
July 27, 2018
Excellent IDE for web development
I am a full stack developer. I used Webstorm for javascript and typescript development. Webstorm IDE gives the ability to enable tslint and jshint. I also use it to run karma tests. It is a strong tool that gives you intelligent code completion, on-the-fly error detection, powerful navigation, and refactoring.
- warning for tslint errors
- warning for compilation error
- refactoring ( rename file or class with all his dependencies)
- Not free :(
June 19, 2018
Excellent IDE for web development
Our company adopted the use of IntelliJ Webstorm roughly three years ago. As our web apps transitioned from the older style Java, JSP based architecture to more Reactive and Javascript style we felt the need to use an IDE that would provide our greatest support in that direction. Webstorm is used in our software development department as the IDE of choice for web and front-end development. Most of our front-end development is done in Angular and Vue.
- This IDE offers full support for JS frameworks and comes equipped with Git, bash terminal, debugger and auto-linter.
- No additional plugins are required to work with frameworks such as React, Stencil and AngularJS
- Docker integration plugin is another great feature that we use regularly in our department.
- It would be ideal if the IDE was made free of cost like Visual Studio Code from Microsoft. That would really boost its adoption by developers.
- We've run into issues with using Karma debugging for our test execution framework.
- The product can be heavy in terms of resource consumption.
May 08, 2018
A Smart IDE
IntelliJ WebStorm is used extensively at our product development department as the IDE of choice for web and front end development. IntelliJ has a great reputation for creating enterprise quality software and WebStorm is no different. At our company most of the front end development is done in AngularJS and Angular. This IDE offers full feature support for both frameworks and comes equipped with Git, bash terminal, debugger and auto-linter.
- Provides full feature support for native JavaScript as well as frameworks like Angular, React, Stencil etc.
- The IDE provides support for auto-linting which is a handy feature to have in order for teams to produce good standardized code.
- The built in terminal is very handy if you want to deploy the code using Webpack server.
- The IDE is fairly resource intensive. It has gotten better in the newer versions but still hogs around 500MB at minimum.
- We've constantly had issues with using the debugger to function correctly while running our Karma tests.
- The IDE is not free like Visual Studio Code or Eclipse and the cost can be a bit prohibitive for young startups.
December 19, 2017
IDE for complete full stack web development
It’s an individual's choice to use Webstorm for development. It’s not mandatory or imposed by any department.
- Number of languages supported
- Number of web frameworks supported
- Smart editing
- Debugging
- Integration with other tools
- Little slow while opening files for the first time
- Opens new window if you open file from outside
- Costs money
November 29, 2017
JetBrains makes great products, and WebStorm is no exception.
I am the senior developer for our company and I use WebStorm for all web (i.e. JavaScript) development. I've used PyCharm for a number of years and when I came across a web application I needed to develop, I checked out JetBrain's options. WebStorm was their offering for web dev so I naturally tried it out. I absolutely loved it and purchased it right away. I use it almost daily now and am a huge fan and it really improved my workflow.
- Provides all the standard IDE benefits (code completion, object awareness, etc.).
- Allows for modules and libraries to be added to projects.
- Has the same standard interface that JetBrains has really perfected so it's a natural move from PyCharm to WebStorm.
- I haven't run into a situation where I'm unable to figure out how to do what I want. I haven't come across any negatives yet.
November 07, 2017
Excellent for new Javascript developers or anyone trying to learn a supported framework!
We use IntelliJ WebStorm in our web development department for its wonderful support for Vue.js.
- Vue.js is our primary use of WebStorm. It provides excellent IntelliSense and framework support for our primary architecture.
- Our secondary use for WebStorm is for JQuery based applications.
- WebStorm is a bit heavy. At any given point it needs between 700 MB and 800 MB to function efficiently.
- At time, the IDE may go a little haywire and require a restart to function properly again.
- Better framework documentation in the editor would be a welcomed addition.
October 25, 2017
Incredible JetBrains Product
WebStorm is being used in my team as we are the only area of the organization that is working on Node/JS applications. WebStorm address the business problem of needing a JavaScript IDE without the overhead and significantly cheaper licensing model compared to Visual Studio. My team and I are more productive and efficient at JavaScript development as a result of using WebStorm.
- JS intellisense
- Easy to add plug-ins for the IDE
- Seems to be responsive and fast in the editor and debugging mode
- Seems to take a while to load up the IDE initially - I've seen this on both MacOS and Windows 10