In WebStorm 5.0 we've introduced new JavaScript static checks and editor intentions to improve your coding experience. Besides checks produced by JSDoc annotations described in the previous post, some fresh inspections for JSON, jQuery selectors and other contexts have been added. (more…)

Hi JavaScript devs! There's no doubt that everyone is using one or another library to access/manipulate the DOM, and jQuery is currently the most popular one. And WebStorm has lots of small but really neat features to help you coding. Let's quickly get a feeling of what we have. 1. Selecting DOM elements The first thing you usually do is selecting some DOM element(s), right? WebStorm will help you with completion for the most used selector types, such as elements ID-s: or CSS classes: Sure you can use more complex selectors, which are also supported, like mixed matching: