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WebStorm 5.0 released: introduces Live Edit and Jade, better JSDoc and Sass/SCSS & more

Eugene Toporov
Eugene Toporov

WebStorm 5.0, a major update to our professional JavaScript IDE is available for immediate download and we are very excited to deliver to you what we’ve done!

We have covered some of the new features here on the blog, and will continue publishing more. But here are the major additions this update brings to web developers:

  • Live HTML/CSS/JS editing preview for Google Chrome — no more window-switching needed.
  • Google Closure Compiler JSDoc annotations support
  • Initial Jade templates support
  • Better JavaScript code completion (faster and smarter)
  • Lots of improvements for Sass/SCSS: better code completion, navigation, code formatting and support for advanced constructs
  • JSTestDriver tests debugging
  • Project-level JS libraries
  • and many other changes.

For further details please read what’s new in WebStorm 5.0.

WebStorm 5.0 is a free update for everyone who purchased their license after Sep 6, 2011.

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