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Tools: WebStorm
Category: Editors and IDEs
Site: jetbrains.com
WebStorm
JetBrains' JavaScript and TypeScript IDE, with the deepest static understanding available for those languages.
Knows your JavaScript better than your JavaScript does.
What it is sold for
Serious front-end and Node development.
Same shelf
The rest of editors and ides, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.
- JetBrains' distributed editor, using the IntelliJ engine but separating the interface from where the code is processed.
- An agent inside the editor that builds, questions and tests, sold on producing code that is ready rather than illustrative.
- JetBrains' Java and Kotlin IDE. Its static analysis and refactoring engine set the standard the rest of the field measures against.
- An early completion product that shut down and open-sourced its work. The domain is listed for sale.
- ByteDance's cloud IDE with a built-in assistant, supporting a wide language range.
- A Vim fork with an embedded Lua runtime and a language server protocol client, which made the modern plugin ecosystem possible.
- An online IDE covering seventy languages, useful when the environment matters less than running the snippet.
- A fast native editor, still commercial, whose speed and multiple cursors set expectations everything since has had to meet.
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