WebStorm vs. Microsoft Visual Studio Code

WebStorm

98 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

908 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
WebStorm	Score9.6 out of 10	N/A	WebStorm is an integrated development environment (IDE) by JetBrains. Designed for JavaScript and TypeScript development, WebStorm also aims to make it easy to tackle the most challenging tasks. Whether resolving Git merge conflicts or renaming a symbol across multiple files, it takes just a few clicks.	$0 per year
Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft offers Visual Studio Code, a text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.	$0

Pricing

WebStorm

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Individual Non-Commercial: $0
per year
Individual: $6.90
per month
Bussiness: $15.90
per month per user
Individual: $69
per year
Business: $159
per year per user

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Pricing Offerings
WebStorm	Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

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	WebStorm	Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Considered Both Products	JetBrains Nir Levy VP R&D, DevOps, and Products in Research & Development at Zoomd Technologies (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose WebStorm While vscode is a great product by itself, I prefer WebStorm as I found it more intuitive to use out of the box. I also feel error detection and linting is producing better results on WebStorm. Keeping an IDE with out-of-the-box keybinding and common plugins allows me … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WebStorm The only other applications that I've used comparable to IntelliJ Webstorm have been Aptana Studio and Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Personally, I found Visual Studio Code too complicated. I never had the time to get around the learning curve of that IDE, since I'm so busy at … Incentivized Helpful? Sagiv Frankel Software Engineer in Engineering at Microsoft (Internet, 10,001+ employees) Chose WebStorm VS Code is free and more popular. Popularity helps in that you can do pair programming more easily because you all use the same [tool]. It's also easier when trying to guide someone (especially a junior developer). However, Webstorm comes with more out-of-the-box and is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WebStorm Microsoft VS code has some similar features as WebStorm, but too basic and lack of a lot of "in-depth" features, it is not kind of "All-In-One" IDE officially speaking, so eventually we find out WebStorm meets our needs much better Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WebStorm I like WebStorm better because I don't have to spend time hunting down "useful plugins" to add to VS Code. But I'm biased because I have a lot more experience with WebStorm. Incentivized Helpful? Hayk Baghdasaryan Full Stack Developer in Information Technology at Tidepool Labs Europe (Program Development, 11-50 employees) Chose WebStorm The only reason we sometimes use Sublime is that it manages to cover basic development needs while being to be very fast and light. WebStorm is heavier on resources, but you can't compare it with Sublime, because WebStorm is an IDE, and therefore it provides more features and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WebStorm IntelliJ WebStorm is a very smart workbench compared with other solutions available in the market, and it saves a lot of developers time in doing their tasks. Incentivized Helpful? Tim Hardy Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Ulterra Drilling Technologies (Oil & Energy, 501-1000 employees) Chose WebStorm For Javascript projects, particularly Angular projects, WebStorm is superior to any other IDE I've used. WebStorm has been easier to pick up and learn straight out of the box. Visual Studio Code might be able to do some of the same things, but not without a lot more setup and … Incentivized Helpful? Igal Fleishman CTO in Engineering at Mapme (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose WebStorm I selected IntelliJ WebStorm mostly for legacy issues and I'm used/loyal to it. I guess if I started today, no strings attached I don't know if I'd be using it. It seems the main competitor is Visual Studio Code. Developers like it because it's fast and simple which is an area … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WebStorm IntelliJ WebStorm in comparison with Visual Studio Code: More features. A richer set of refactoring capabilities. Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Aziz Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Full Circle TMS (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose WebStorm 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. Incentivized Helpful? Dave Otis Web Developer in Engineering at Devolutions (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose WebStorm While Visual Studio is a great toll to develop our C# back-end application, we found that using this one to develop our front-end web application was not suitable. Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Tao Mihiranga Graphic Designer and Web Developer in Information Technology at codeclaro (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft VS Code is extremely customizable with needs. So, features like syntax highlighting, bracket-matching, auto-indentation, well-integrated terminal, and side-by-side editing are powerful. Even these features are given free with Microsoft VS code. PyCharm and WebStorm … Incentivized Helpful? Moris Mendez Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos in Legal at Corte Suprema de Justicia (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code All the previously listed are incredible development environments that perfectly fulfill this function, but [Microsoft] Visual Studio Code goes one step ahead by providing flexibility, customization and adaptability to development environments with its own methodology, for all … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code [Microsoft] Visual Studio Code beats the competition due to its extensibility. Their robust extensions architecture combined with the plethora of mostly free extensions written by the community can't be beaten. The fact that this tool itself is provided by a world-recognized … Incentivized Helpful? Tharsanan Kurukulasingam Software Engineer in Information Technology at Enactor (pvt) ltd (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code When it comes to UI and light weightiness, Visual Code is the winner. But when it comes to Intelli-Sense and autosuggestion IntelliJ works better in my view. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code For our software dev teams, they still use the products from JetBrains (PhpStorm, RubyMine, etc) when they are laser-focused on one technology. For our less experienced, less code specific web dev team, Microsoft Visual Studio Code knocks it out of the park. I'd recommend … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Hardy Software Architect in Information Technology at Premier Designs, Inc (Retail, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code We had better luck with VS Code than Atom. We tried to like Atom pretty hard, but it just had some clunkiness and some unintuitive things that caused us to give up on it. Webstorm seems to be a much more capable competitor. The main pro of VS Code over Webstorm is that VS … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I would say it's great since it's open-source and anyone who aspires to do app development can make use of all features provided by the Visual Studio Code. Incentivized Helpful? Sudha Govindaraju C# Programmer in Information Technology at IRISS, Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Overall, compared to all other open source text editors like Sublime Text, Vim, etc, I've noticed that the Visual Studio Code has been updated regularly which makes it work more efficiently and resolves any bugs on a continuous basis. I feel like VS Code has the speed like Subli… Incentivized Helpful? Aaron Smith Senior Software Developer in Information Technology at TimeTrak Systems, Inc. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code offers a better one-stop-shopping experience if you are multi-lingual. There are plugins for just about every language imaginable making it great if you want one experience in every language you write code in. You don't get that with WebStorm or even with the … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	WebStorm	Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (30 ratings)	8.6 (90 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.4 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (3 ratings)	8.6 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	9.4 (8 ratings)	9.7 (23 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)