Furthermore the integration of built-in tools for debugging, testing (Karma test runner, Mocha, Jest and Protractor) and tracing (spy-js for tracing JavaScript code) of application codes is also there. There is an integration with shfmt to format the code and a connection to ShellCheck for static code analysis with linting. The conversion takes place via TextMate Grammar files.

Moreover, it comes with a 30-days free trial license.Īlthough designed primarily for developing JavaScript or TypeScript applications, WebStorm also offers advanced syntax highlighting for over 20 programming languages such as Node.js, HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, Angular, React, Vue.js and Meteor. However, for professionals, it is paid but Students or educations institutional can obtain a free license for it from the Jetbrains official website. Rather the company has decided to go with premium options only. It is developed using the open-source IntelliJ Platform, however, WebStorm doesn’t have open source or free community edition to use. Even for shell scripts that exist as “.sh” or “.bash” files, autocomplete now works. Just like popular code editor software, it also has a smart code auto-complete facility. Webstorm is a JavaScript IDE development tool that comes handy to front-end developers for code editing purposes.

Webstorm free edition