JetBrains makes great products, and WebStorm is no exception.
November 29, 2017

JetBrains makes great products, and WebStorm is no exception.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with IntelliJ WebStorm

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.
  • Reduces application development time.
  • Reduces code errors.
  • NetBeans, Visual Studio Code and Sublime
WebStorm is a better all around IDE when you are building out a solution. Visual Studio Code, Sublime, these are great for single files or for quick demos. But once we sit down to create a project, we fire up WebStorm.
The only place where you might not want to use it is if you are making a single file or a very very small project that could otherwise be handled in notepad. Using an IDE in this situation might be an overkill.

But all our code is saved to GitHub so there's no reason not to use it.