Overall Satisfaction with IntelliJ WebStorm
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
- Developers in our organization have increased productivity
- As a team, we are able to ensure basic coding standards are met with ESLint easily
I started with Visual Studio - at the time, intellisense for JavaScript was limited - WebStorm was built for JavaScript applications; so intellisense was automatic. WebStorm offered project templates out of the gate which was really helpful as I learned JavaScript application development for both web and service projects.