WebStorm vs. Microsoft Visual Studio

WebStorm

98 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Visual Studio

805 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
Visual Studio	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	Visual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.	$45 per month

Pricing

WebStorm

Visual Studio

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

Professional: $45.00
per month
Enterprise: $250.00
per month

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

No setup fee

No setup fee

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	WebStorm	Visual Studio
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 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? 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? Swapnil Pharate Sr.Analyst/Data Scientist/Engineer in Corporate at Verizon (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose WebStorm Others are free IntelliJ WebStorm is not. Incentivized Helpful? Tristin Davis Sr. Software Engineer / Web Developer in Information Technology at Gartman Systems (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose WebStorm We use Visual Studio Code for much of our Vue.js development now due to the excellent support with Vetur and the ease of writing plugins. Incentivized Helpful? Foster Haines Software Engineering Manager in Information Technology at TriCore Reference Laboratories (Medical Practice, 1001-5000 employees) Chose WebStorm I started with Visual Studio - at the time, intellisense for JavaScript was limited - WebStorm was built for JavaScript applications; so intellisense was automatic. WebStorm offered project templates out of the gate which was really helpful as I learned JavaScript application … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WebStorm The above mentioned IDEs/editors are light weight and do not eat up that much RAM but WebStorm is clearly superior when it comes to great development, maintainability, easy testing and debugging of a software project. Many advanced features with syntax suggestions, language … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Balázs Kiss Software Developer in Engineering at Webvalto Ltd. (Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose Visual Studio It's a well [maintained], mature IDE, which has the benefit of being a [software] which only the most skilled developers works on, instead of being open source. It has a lot of very useful features, which most free IDE-s don't. Also, it has many options from commercial … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Visual Studio Compared to a lot of these options (which are free except WebStorm), Visual Studio definitely leads the pack as far as its completeness of feature set. There are deep integrations with the Microsoft ecosystem with Visual Studio that the others can't really compete with, as … Incentivized Helpful? Aaron Smith Senior Software Developer in Information Technology at TimeTrak Systems, Inc. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Visual Studio While Visual Studio Code makes up for some of its shortcomings by being an IDE for just about any language you want to develop in, having a designer for WPF or Windows Forms saves a ton of time. However, Code provides better intellisense for CSS when you use SAAS (SCSS). Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Visual Studio Rider has a lot of potential but sInce Rider is a really new project, there is a lot of bugs in it. Other than that we didn't really try other alternatives to Visual Studio code for our C# applications. Incentivized Helpful? Diego Fonseca Marín Innovation manager in Research & Development at IMPESA (Financial Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Visual Studio Also VSCode; these are all IDE that support the creation of web APIs and web applications; and it can support C# (for example VSCode) but Visual Studio IDE has a better set of integrated tools in the same environment. A developer adopts it very naturally, so a person can be … Incentivized Helpful? Miguelangel Nuñez Software Developer in Information Technology at Incostas S.A. (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 201-500 employees) Chose Visual Studio Both programs are equivalent and Visual Studio has a better pricing schema Incentivized Helpful? Jakub Wilk President & Co-Founder in Information Technology at Enovatio (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Visual Studio We are using this IDE together so we don't use one against the other, true also is that when you would like to develop .NET solution there is no other choice and you should always use Visual Studio. It is standard and it is made by the producer of the framework. We will see if … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Orlando Senior Developer Analyst in Information Technology at Joint Commission Resources (Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees) Chose Visual Studio With Visual Studio I just code on the front-end and click the VCR-like play icon in the toolbar to launch the code in a browser. WebStorm doesn't give me any such convenience. With WebStorm I have to launch my code in IIS and use WebStorm to simply edit the files. I also have … Incentivized Helpful? Foster Haines Software Engineering Manager in Information Technology at TriCore Reference Laboratories (Medical Practice, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Visual Studio We need the additional Windows .NET support provided by Visual Studio IDE. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Visual Studio I feel like the capabilites of Visual Studio are far and away better than any other offerings I have used. The debugging, compiling, and general polished state of Visual Studio just seems to be better than any other IDEs like it. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	WebStorm	Visual Studio
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (30 ratings)	9.0 (105 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (3 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.4 (8 ratings)	8.8 (15 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)