Node.js

Some features are so (seamingly) simple yet so powerful. One of them is the new Live Console in the PhpStorm JavaScript and Node.js debugger. While debugging JavaScript, we can use the Console tab to execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the execution context. This means we can alter variables, call JavaScript functions, or even define additional functions on the fly. This feature is ava

We are pleased to announce Grunt support in PhpStorm 8 EAP! If you're new to Grunt, it is a JavaScript Task Runner, much like Phing is for PHP, which can automate a lot of tasks in our development workflow. Grunt has a large number of plugins available that can automate anything from minification and compilation to unit testing, linting and so on. Let's see how we can get Grunt to work in our favo

Forget about the NSA: PhpStorm 8 EAP comes with spy-js, our own secret service that allows tracing our code without console.log, debugging it without breakpoints and profiling it without any specialized tools. All while running our web app (and even other web apps out there on the Internet, it's a secret service after all). Sounds like some serious espionage, right? Let's have a quick look at what

A good developer is a lazy developer, right? Thanks to PhpStorm and WebStorm sharing the IntelliJ IDEA platform, we had an easier job integrating support for Bower from our colleagues! Bower is a package manager for the web, which allows us to manage our project’s front-end dependencies such as Bootstrap, AngularJS, jQuery and many more. Let's see how we can use it in PhpStorm! (more…)