WebStorm 2016.1 released: better refactoring options, Angular 2, debugger improvements, and more

Ekaterina Prigara

We’re excited to announce the release of WebStorm 2016.1, the first major update for our IDE this year. This update brings even better experience while editing and refactoring JavaScript and TypeScript code and steps up the IDE’s debugging capabilities.

Download WebStorm 2016.1 for your OS on the What’s new page on our website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uceWBKISaF8

Here are the highlights of this update:

• Improvements in ECMAScript 6 and TypeScript support: better refactoring options, new Unused imports inspection and Optimize imports action.
• Major enhancements in Angular 2 support: coding assistance for event and property bindings, completion inside any data bindings, code insight for custom event handlers, and much more.
• Support for debugging asynchronous client-side code, arrow functions in ES6, and Web and Service workers.

debugging Node.js apps on a remote machine or Vagrant box from the IDE.

Other updates worth mentioning include support for AngularJS ui-router, support for CSS Custom properties, running and debugging Electron apps in the IDE, support for the JSON Schema format for smarter coding assistance, and new Convert string to template string intention.

For a more detailed overview please visit What’s new in WebStorm 2016.1.

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