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David Dal Busco

I also use Webstorm and pay the yearly fee.

One of the few subscription, if not the only one, for which I have absolutely no doubts that it is worth the money. I am just more effective with their editor and the fact that you can reach out their support anytime, makes it worth it.

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Gary Bell

I have the full toolbox. I also got my employer to pay for it for the rest of the dev team. JetBrains have done alright from me over the years, and will continue to do so.

If I had to pay the full £499 a year for just me, I'd reconsider it and just go for PHPStorm alongside PyCharm Community

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David Dal Busco

Indeed the full one is quite an investment. I only use Webstorm (since a couple of years), so I (aka my company 😉) pays something like 79$ a year.

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Gary Bell

I use PHPStorm just about every day. I also use DataGrip quite often, so there's two tools already. I dip in and out of PyCharm, but use it less than I would like.

I've been a customer long enough that an annual licence for toolbox for me is less than 2 licences individually, so I stick with it.

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David Dal Busco

It makes fully sense 👍

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scroung720

Last time I used webstorm was 4 or 5 years ago. Currently, I am working with VS Code and a friend lately has been saying that I should try WebStorm and he gives me a list of features that I believe are already in VS Code. Does anyone of you know features that are not built in VS Code?

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David Dal Busco

This week I saw a tweet mentioning that you can now in VS Code visualize upcoming changes before refactoring in order "to be sure that it is correct". I found it actually funny because in Webstorm, refactoring just works, period. It's really a powerful and reliable feature.

Another feature which I found better implemented in Webstorm is Git. Even if you are slick with the GitHub commands, which are seamlessly integrated, it can still helps in case of merge conflicts. The way of resolving these is pretty well handled.

Summarized: Refactoring + Git are really great in Webstorm

Of course the above answer is my humble opinion. Other might see it differently and even I might change my mind with the time. That being said, few times I tried VS Code, these two features were bringing me back to Webstorm.