Efficient usage of WebStorm IDE

Some random thoughts, maybe more later....

In the help, definitely read the Basic Concepts and skim the WebStorm Usage Guidelines for actions that you care about.

Learn to use Ctrl-Shift-A. It allows you to 1uickly find actions you can do by typing part of them. With that you can find anything once you know it exists.

WebStorm's (like IntelliJ) best magic is its code completion and refactoring features, which come from its code parsing and awareness. It figures a lot of stuff out, but you can help it out by making you have good source files. Put the commented versions of the libraries you use in your project so it can use those comments to display in the doc popups (just having them in the directory is all you need).

Be sure to leave the tips on.

Their forums are useful, but if you have a problem or feature request put it right into youtrack.com. They are much more responsive there. You can also vote for the stuff you want added.

And if you haven't seen it yet, there is a VIM plugin which will give you VIM editor keys, called IdeaVim.

Features I find most useful:

• Code formatting. WebStorm's formatter is the best I've seen (of course, it still has some subtle bugs).

• Built-in HTTP server: http://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2013/03/built-in-server-in-webstorm-6/, How to open/debug current file using built-in Web server in WebStorm?

• JsTestDriver integration.

• Plugins. You can always find something useful.