WebStorm is a comprehensive web IDE that will be especially comfortable for anyone familiar with other JetBrains products
July 03, 2019

WebStorm is a comprehensive web IDE that will be especially comfortable for anyone familiar with other JetBrains products

Anthony Aziz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IntelliJ WebStorm

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.
  • Development experience led to faster development times due to better performance, and it's well worth the licence cost.
  • Language and platform tools, tslint support, refactoring support, etc., have all improved our code quality and readability.
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.
WebStorm is a comprehensive web IDE that will be especially comfortable for anyone familiar with other JetBrains products, such as IntelliJ or Rider. It offers an environment for developing larger and more mature web applications, and promotes good design via refactoring, suggestions, and built-in support for many frameworks. WebStorm works on a project basis, so it is not as convenient for editing one-off scripts, though.