@scottvonduhn I tried VS Code and still came back to WebStorm it may be a matter of preference I guess...

VSCode isn't an IDE. Don't care how much peopl squeal about it. Webstorm is infinitely better but its $60/yr so people balk at it for some reason? Its $60 and you can write it off if you need to.

No, it’s not, but strangely we have a few dozen developers all using it, almost exclusively, without much complaint. that does not make it the best product, but it meets our needs well enough. I really only use it because my team prefers it, and I don’t find that it slow me down. The money isn’t a concern, as we all have IDEA licenses too.

Yeah its not a bad product in the slighest. I actually use Sublime Text 3 (because I paid for it on mac and just keep using it) and WebStorm so I get it. You need a few plugins to get VSCode working LIKE an IDE. IMO I don't care if you use notepad just as long as its quality code.

Several years back we had a large group of people using Sublime Text (I think it was version 2 at the time) who really loved it. Of course, our main IDE at that time was Eclipse with some custom built plug-ins, so we had people using various alternatives (even Notepad++ and Emacs!) because Eclipse was just so bad, especiall for JavaScript. Eventually a friend of mine went on a personal crusade to get everyone to switch to IntelliJ IDEA, and we dropped Eclipse and everything else like a bad habit. Then, just a few years ago, a bunch of new JavaScript developers joined the company and they all used VS Code and basically pressured everyone to use it for JS development everywhere. We use a bunch of additional packages to make it behave a bit more like a proper IDE. That’s pretty much where we stand today, except that a few people still use Emacs and Sublime and won’t give them up.

Yeah I can see that as a path for sure. IntelliJ doesn't make much sense to use over WebStorm except that it supports FTL files so you can do a little advanced PDF work w/ syntax highlighting.

We have a bulk enterprise license price for IntelliJ IDEA (since we develop in many other languages), so it’s actually cheaper than a single WebStorm license for us. That makes WebStorm a hard sell for me here, unless I could get other people to switch, but that hasn’t happened.