The Brunch Build Tool
This is a guest post by Michael Schmatz, Lead Developer at CodeCombat One of the most important parts of CodeCombat’s development workflow is Brunch. In this post I’ll tell you why CodeCombat chose...
View ArticleHow WebStorm Works: Completion for JavaScript Libraries
One of the essential features of WebStorm’s editor is code completion. The way it is implemented in WebStorm is that it takes all JavaScript files in the project and goes through them, adding functions...
View ArticleCode Quality Analysis in WebStorm
WebStorm comes with many powerful tools to assure the high quality of your code base. Dozens of built-in inspections are enabled by default. These static code analysis tools help you find probable...
View ArticleLive Edit Updates in WebStorm 9 — What’s New?
WebStorm 9 brings a highly demanded new feature: Live Edit for Node.js. With this powerful functionality, WebStorm can now automatically update your Node.js application or restart Node.js server on any...
View ArticleTracing, debugging and profiling Node.js with spy-js
This post is part of a series of posts covering features in WebStorm 9 EAP: WebStorm EAP is open! Live Edit updates in WebStorm 9 – What’s new? Spy-js, our “secret agent”, has done a great job at...
View ArticleJavaScript Postfix Completion
This post is part of a series of posts covering features in WebStorm 9 EAP: WebStorm 9 EAP is open Live Edit Updates in WebStorm 9 – What’s new? Tracing, debugging and profiling Node.js with spy-js It...
View ArticleWebStorm 9 EAP, 138.1988: Meteor support, Gulp and more
A couple of weeks ago we started the Early Access Program for WebStorm 9. Hopefully you are already enjoying WebStorm’s new features! With the second EAP build we bring you more long-awaited features:...
View ArticleMeteor Support in WebStorm 9
This post is part of a series of posts covering features in WebStorm 9 EAP: WebStorm EAP is open! Live Edit updates in WebStorm 9 – What’s new? Tracing, debugging and profiling Node.js with spy-js...
View ArticleSpy-js 2.0: New level of JavaScript tracing
It has been almost 7 months since we released WebStorm 8. The recently rolled out WebStorm 9 brings a lot of new things on top of that, so today I’m going to tell you more about some new exciting...
View ArticleGulp in WebStorm 9
Whether you’re using Grunt or Gulp as a build system/task runner in your project, WebStorm is here to help you with that. WebStorm 8 introduced Grunt console (you can read about it in this blog post),...
View ArticleWebStorm 9.0.2 EAP, 139.625: bug fix update
WebStorm 9.0.2 EAP (build 139.625) is now available! This early access build brings dozens of bug fixes and improvements including basic support for TypeScript 1.3 features (WEB-14149), fix for the...
View ArticleWebStorm 9.0.2 Bug Fix Update Available
WebStorm 9.0.2 (build 139.773) is now available for download! While the update is mostly focused on the bug fixes (you can look through the list of addressed issues in the release notes for builds...
View Articleio.js already in WebStorm
Are you as excited about the release of io.js 1.0 as we are? io.js is a fork of Node.js that is using the very latest version of V8 and brings ES6 features and lots of changes and improvements in the...
View ArticleWebStorm 10 EAP, 140.2424: spy-js application dependency diagram and fixes
The second Early Access build for WebStorm 10 (140.2424) is now available for download. If you missed the announcement last week, let us remind you about WebStorm 10 EAP new features: JavaScript...
View Articlespy-js TypeScript, CoffeeScript, ES6 support, advanced search and navigation
While WebStorm celebrates its 10th version anniversary, spy-js is proud of its third major release within this awesome IDE. Here’s a quick sneak peek at the new spy-js features available in WebStorm...
View ArticleDailyJS survey results 2014: technologies WebStorm users use
Every year DailyJS, a popular blog on JavaScript development, runs a Developer Survey among their readers. We decided to have a closer look at the results of the 2014 survey which polled over 4000...
View ArticlePlugin overview: Wallaby.js, continuous test runner
This is a guest blog post about wallaby.js, third-party plugin to WebStorm, PhpStorm, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, RubyMine, PyCharm. The plugin is a separately sold commercial product, but is currently...
View ArticleECMAScript 6 in WebStorm: Transpiling
For some time now WebStorm has supported ECMAScript 6, the future standard for JavaScript. While its features get more and more support in modern browsers and runtimes (see the Kangax compatibility...
View ArticleNode.js profiling in WebStorm. Part 1: CPU profiling.
Profiling is hard work. The amount of gathered information and demand to keep in mind the execution times and code structure is a serious challenge. WebStorm assists you on this tough journey. It...
View ArticleNode.js profiling in WebStorm. Part 2: Memory profiling.
We continue talking about our new Node.js profiling features in WebStorm 10. In our previous post we explored CPU profiling. In this one we’ll dive into the strategies for memory problems investigation...
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