WebStorm vs. PhpStorm

WebStorm is a great product for programming and development. It has all the capabilities needed for education, as well as for professional deployment. I use it in the classroom with my students, who benefit from the comprehensive drop down menus and the integrated spell check. It also has a clean user interface that allows for customization.

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PhpStorm is well suited for any PHP development. It integrates well with Symfony, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Cake & Twig. I have used it very successfully in the past and despite not being my go-to editor, I will still use it when working on PHP heavy frameworks.

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• This is the only editor in my opinion which gives you the full development experience if you want to code in JavaScript.
• WebStorm supports many different linters including "standards". This has been such a blessing for our team. All our PRs look perfect now.
• WebStorm is very good in design. I love coding in it.
• It has terminal built right into it. I know many other editors also provide this, but I really like how seamlessly the terminal works out of the box.
• Most of the plugins you will ever need is already installed right off the box. I haven't installed anything new so far.
• The rename/reformat functions are very intelligent. I feel very confident renaming something new.
• There is a "validation" inspector which reports anything as small as spellings. This helps us keep our codebase very-very clean.

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• Version Control: Git, Subversion, and Others.
• Alerts about code being developed, alerts like errors, discontinuation of some function, suggestions for improvements.
• Application database access can run SQL commands directly from PhpStorm without having to have any other clients open.
• Shortcut keys that assist in the coding process.

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• Didn't find any apparent issue overall, except sometimes the WebStorm is running too many default validation check in the backend and response is slow, typically when we keep WebStorm running for some time, and if we restart the WebStorm it will take long time to be "warm up", perhaps, some JetBean team can consider some performance improvement

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• There is a bug sometimes, when you pull that the directory structure it forgets all the folders
• It's not free
• When I copy paste the default is to not keep the same spacing/tab pattern of the original, which I'm not a fan of

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It's an irreplaceable part of my toolkit and isn't that expensive per year.

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Great in debugging, testing, developing and maintaining softwares in a number of languages. Great support for many languages and their syntaxes. Great support of many third party extensions and plugins like GIT and html plugins. The RAM usage of WebStorm however could be really improved, it literally takes almost all of the RAM of my machine with 16GB RAM

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PhpStorm is very easy to use, once you get the hang of it. It can take a while to get the hang of it because there's so many options, some of which are buried in the imposing settings panel. It could use some help with multi-cursor, especially multi-file editing but that's a minor gripe.

I gave this rating because I have never needed their customer support, which is the highest level of support I suppose. When a product works just fine out of the box and everything you may need is well documented, it's a paradise for the customer. But I've seen some questions asked on their portal, and I've seen thorough answers given to the questions and the willingness to support the customer with follow-ups and everything else.

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The JetBrains community is all about helping others succeed, even in the most obscure setups. I have never had a question go unanswered, or I have never been able to come up with empty results in searching for the answer. My questions or concerns are typically address from other users in the community, so timing is pretty quick for a response

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Highly recommend the JetBrains Toolbox, it remembers your recent projects and launches from the task bar.

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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 generally faster and more effective. Webstorm has been around for many more years as well.

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Each one of the products I've listed are great in their own right, but non of them provide as complete a solution as PhpStorm in my opinion. Very few products offer all of the features that PhpStorm does and those that do don't have the greatest performance in my experience. Some have a great text editor but lack other critical features while others have a bounty of features, but the text editor is garbage. Before I tried PhpStorm, I stuck to using simple text editors because the features the IDEs offered didn't outweigh performance hit of running such a large, slow program. PhpStorm isn't lightweight by any means but I haven't noticed any of the common performance issues that I experienced with other IDEs.

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• Our UX guys love the Emmet support provided by WebStorm and enjoy cranking out prototypes quicker than they could before.
• I love the standardization provided by the tslint support. When all the devs code to the same standard, it makes our code more maintainable.
• The test support makes it easier to write and execute tests, lowering the barrier to entry of creating test suite around our code. Testing makes maintenance of any codebase far more effective and efficient.

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• Recent AI advancements have saved us time to build by integrating it direct with the IDE allowing build to deployment to happen at a more rapid pace than previously possible
• Integrated AI commit message generation saves time and effort from team members shorting time writing documentation allowing more time spent in development
• Integrated git development causes less friction across team with version control and merge conflict resolution shortening development work flows

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