While WebStorm celebrates its 10th version anniversary, spy-js is proud of its third major release within this awesome IDE. Here's a quick sneak peek at the new spy-js features available in WebStorm 10. Source maps, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, ES6 via Babel/Traceur/etc tracing support From day one, spy-js was capable of tracing JavaScript code execution. Later on we added ES6/ES2015 support for engines that can execute it. Now it's time to bring some of its love to other languages compiled to JavaScript! Today I am happy to announce that the newest spy-js can trace TypeScript, CoffeeScript and

Today is a big day for us, as we roll out WebStorm 10, a major update of your favorite JavaScript IDE. You can download and install it right now! This 10th anniversary release strives to meet your highest expectations, including language and technology support, fast performance and powerful features: Improved JavaScript support: We’ve completely reworked support for JavaScript and added lots for enhancements in ECMAScript 6 support. TypeScript 1.4 support and built-in compiler: Instantly provides a compiled JavaScript file and highlights any compilation errors in the editor. Appli

The second Early Access build for WebStorm 10 (140.2424) is now available for download. If you missed the announcement last week, let us remind you about WebStorm 10 EAP new features: JavaScript support improvement, simultaneous HTML tag editing, advanced search features and source map support in spy-js, distraction free mode and more. This update addresses some issues found in the first EAP build as well as previously known problems and adds some new features. The full list of issues fixed in WebStorm 10 EAP, 140.2424 you can see in the release notes. spy-js application dependency diag

It’s February already and we can’t wait any longer for the Early Access Program for WebStorm 10 to start! Go ahead and download the first WebStorm 10 EAP build (140.2167) right now! EAP builds do not require an active license. Even though we haven’t announced a development roadmap for WebStorm 10, there are so many exciting ideas on our mind. But before starting to work on any new features, we decided that the first and top priority should be to bring the long-awaited JavaScript support update and other important improvements to the IDE. New features will be announced as the Early Acces

The recording of our October 30th webinar with John Lindquist, A Deep Dive into WebStorm 9's New Features, is now available on the JetBrains YouTube channel. (more…)

It has been almost 7 months since we released WebStorm 8. The recently rolled out WebStorm 9 brings a lot of new things on top of that, so today I'm going to tell you more about some new exciting features I have been working on in spy-js, and will share some tips and tricks on how to use them. Spy-js powered Autocompletion and Magnifier Last fall, in a spy-js presentation I mentioned a few possible distant-future features. Well, the future is here and today those feature come true. Please welcome spy-js-driven code completion and magnifier! Before using these new features, make sure to sele

Today we are announcing the release of WebStorm 9 and we are really excited about that! You can download WebStorm 9 right now! To brings you the very best development experience based on today’s most powerful and trending webdev technologies and tools, WebStorm 9 introduces: Full support for Meteor. WebStorm now provides coding assistance and debug capabilities for Meteor applications. Support for React including syntax highlighting, code completion and error detection for JSX and JavaScript expressions in JSX, and more. Integration with Gulp that helps you easily browse through

It’s been some really busy weeks for the WebStorm team. And now it’s time for the next WebStorm 9 EAP build and more new features. And some of them are huge! Here is just a quick overview: - spy-js powered code completion and magnifier - ES6 support in spy-js - CSS3 support enhancements - Scratch files - new way of indexing project node modules - Dart's pub serve integration - Web Starter Kit as a new project template And one more thing: improved JSX support! Go ahead and download WebStorm 9 EAP (138.2406). We are waiting for your feedback in our issue tracker. (more…)

This post is part of a series of posts covering features in WebStorm 9 EAP: WebStorm EAP is open! Live Edit updates in WebStorm 9 - What's new? JavaScript Postfix Completion Spy-js, our "secret agent", has done a great job at tracing, debugging and profiling front-end JavaScript code. With WebStorm 9 EAP, we're expanding its job: there is no back-end Node.js code our 007 can't infiltrate. As a refresher, spy-js was introduced with WebStorm 8. It allows tracing our code without resorting to console.log, debugging it without breakpoints and profiling it without any specialized too

Please give a warm welcome to the Early Access Program for WebStorm 9! Go ahead and download WebStorm 9 EAP right now. As you may remember, back in May we published our development roadmap for the next version of WebStorm, featuring Meteor support, Gulp integration, spy-js for Node.js and other exciting new features. While some of the features in that list are still cooking and going to be introduced in the following EAP builds, here is a list of new features you can already try: - Updated Live Edit feature that can now automatically update your Node.js app on any changes - Spy-

The recording of our April 24th webinar with John Lindquist, WebStorm 8: Mastering AngularJS, spy-js, Grunt, and Multi-Selection Workflows, is now available on JetBrains YouTube channel. (more…)

Introduction What is the difference between Orem, Utah, USA; Munich, Germany; Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; and St. Petersburg, Russia? Well, they are thousands of kilometers apart, span 3 climate zones from continental to subtropical, and only one of them is home to kangaroos. What do these places share in common? They are all home to the team behind WebStorm 8. But there are things more puzzling than that. For example, have you ever suspected it's possible to trace your code without console.log, debug it without breakpoints, and profile it without JavaScript execution engine specific

Join us Thursday, April 24th, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT (16:00 - 17:00 GMT) for our free live webinar showing-off the hottest additions to WebStorm 8. (more…)