WebStorm 2020.1, the first major update this year, is now available! It comes with a more polished look and feel, out-of-the-box support for Vuex and Composition API, an option to run Prettier on save, and improvements for JavaScript and TypeScript.
If you only have a few minutes to explore what’s new in WebStorm 2020.1, watch this video where Paul Everitt, WebStorm Developer Advocate, reviews the most notable improvements. If you feel like diving a little deeper, read on!
The new features and improvements fall into these categories:
- Look and Feel: a new default editor font, a unified light theme, Zen mode for focused coding, quick documentation on hover, LightEdit mode for quick editing, and a customizable status bar.
- Frameworks: Vuex and Composition API support, completion for Vue in HTML files with CDN links, improvements to React support, and full support for Angular 9.
- JavaScript and TypeScript: more useful quick documentation, new smart intentions and inspections, support for TypeScript 3.8 features, and a reworked UI of the Introduce Field refactoring.
- Tools: run Prettier on save, split terminal sessions, bundled spell checker, Jest enhancements, TypeScript support with Yarn 2, and more flexible sharing of run configurations.
- Version Control: a reworked dialog for rebasing commits, improved work with branches, changes to the commit flow, and installing Git from the IDE.
For the last three years, I’ve been working as a full-stack developer at an Australian startup that helps make international money transfers cheaper and faster. The startup is quite small, so every employee, including myself, has to wear multiple hats. Apart from being responsible for everything happening on the backend and frontend, I do a lot of work with security, the network, databases, and infrastructure. I have a couple of contractors helping me with some tasks, but most of the work is on me. This is the fourth startup I’ve worked for. At my last three jobs, I did pretty much the same things and also worked with JavaScript.
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I guide the success of our products and lead the cross-functional team which is responsible for improving those products. The team that I lead includes a group of software engineers and a few product managers. I have a strong technology and engineering background. Before RoadBotics, I worked as a Chief Technology Officer at a machine learning startup.