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The One Tool for Web Development
September 28, 2019

The One Tool for Web Development

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IntelliJ WebStorm

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.
  • Faster development.
  • Improved developer productivity.
  • Employee satisfaction through the use of modern tools.
IntelliJ WebStorm in comparison with Visual Studio Code:
  • More features.
  • A richer set of refactoring capabilities.
  • Always supporting new features in Web frameworks.
  • More expensive.
  • A very responsive company with great support, as supposed to a model in Visual Studio Code where most of the support is through a community. IntelliJ WebStorm has both a company and community support.
  • IntelliJ enjoys great reputation among developers.

  • The support is very responsive and reacts not only quickly, but with great expertise. The support clearly cares a lot about the customers and employs knowledgeable engineers.
  • Products are well documented and besides the official documentation, there is a large body of community published materials.
  • All interactions with the company reflect the care for the customers.

Do you think WebStorm delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with WebStorm's feature set?

Yes

Did WebStorm live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of WebStorm go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy WebStorm again?

Yes

IntelliJ WebStorm is well suited for:

  • Developing JavaScript, TypeScript applications, understanding and debugging code.
  • Work with a variety of web frameworks Angular, React, Vue.
  • Good support for HTML and CSS.
  • A rich ecosystem of community provided plugins expands the use to a variety of software development tasks.
IntelliJ WebStorm is not well suited for:
  • Non-JavaScript programming languages.
  • Editing files where quick startup time is required.