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Although recently we've been posting a lot about IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3 EAP and new features it brings, we did very little mention of JavaScript and companions. Well, it's time to correct this oversight because the WebStorm wasn't just sitting there all this time, and since IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm …

In the year 2013 much has changed in the world of web development: new languages, frameworks and libraries, and even test runners and frameworks. JetBrains continues to provide the best tools for all web developers, no matter what language or technology they’re using, and in today's post we'll fresh…

This is a cross-post from WebStorm & PhpStorm blog, originally posted by Maxim Mossienko. Do you have a habit running JSLint or JSHint for your JavaScript code? If you do not have it because the running is tedious, then IDE can help you with it while you edit the code. Here is how. (more&hel…

This is a cross-post from WebStorm & PhpStorm blog, originally posted by Sergey Simonchik. Measuring JavaScript code coverage naturally complements unit testing. It provides a clear picture of which parts of your code remain untested, and helps you focus additional tests on the uncovered code. …

This is a cross-post from WebStorm & PhpStorm blog, originally posted by Konstantin Ulitin. As you may know from the previous post about JavaScript Libraries in Intellij IDEA 10, the main benefit of specifying JavaScript libraries in your project is to populate a completion list with only relev…

This is a cross-post from WebStorm & PhpStorm blog, originally posted by Konstantin Ulitin. We are getting a lot of reports and ideas from you about the ordering of JavaScript completion options. So in IntelliJ IDEA we made small but important improvements. More relevant suggestions now appear …

Probably the last EAP build (before RC) of IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 is available for download. New settings are added to Groovy Colors & Fonts settings to highlight local variables, parameters, reassigned local variables, reassigned parameters and method declarations in the editor. This build inc…

This is a cross-post from WebStorm & PhpStorm blog, originally posted by Konstantin Ulitin. As you may know, there are different versions of the JavaScript language. Each JavaScript engine implementation adds some nice features that others don't have. To make sure that you only use features sui…

Since IntelliJ IDEA 11 the Mark Object action, which was previously available in JVM-based debuggers only, is also supported in JavaScript debuggers for Firefox and Chrome browsers. To mark an object press F11 on the corresponding node in any debugger tree and specify the label: After that the lab…

When you debug JavaScript code in IntelliJ IDEA 11 you can see the most important properties of an object without expanding its node: By default the 'id' and 'name' properties are shown for each object but you can add your own properties in Settings | Debugger | JavaScript: This feature works …

IntelliJ IDEA 10 allows you to debug JavaScript code running it in Mozilla Firefox. In IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 can choose to debug JavaScript in Google Chrome as well. Debugger for Chrome supports all features of JavaScript debugger for Firefox, you can set breakpoints, inspect local variables, evalua…