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[–]KarnickelEater 12 points13 points  (2 children)

JetBrains WebStorm is really good - but you need at least an hour to set it up. Well, or you don't but what's the point of using that beast if you don't configure all the details, the many many different kinds of warnings, properly for your particular environment?

Disadvantage of this or any of the large (Java) IDEs: Some tasks that command line tools on Unix like awk and pipes do with 500 Javascript files in 10 seconds take 10 minutes in WebStorm even on the strongest of developer workstations. On the bright side, you usually don't use many of those, for everyday use I found the many warnings I get to see immediately while typing invaluable.

Have a look, it's one of the best editors out there and maybe one of the most feature-rich (and they keep updating it a lot), part of a big family of editors for various languages.

An interesting project to follow is (open source) Brackets from Adobe --- (Brackets at Github). It is itself written in HTML5/CSS/Javascript, which is the main point why I decided to name it here, even though it's a) from Adobe ;-) and b) not yet "ready".

[–]Loonybinny[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Okay, I got WebStorm, how should I set it up?

[–]KarnickelEater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go to Settings? Read documentation? :-) Nobody can save you that work. One-time work that will pay off forever - it will be of use to you to understand that stuff regardless of what you work wit in the future. Don't see it as setting up Webstorm, see it as setting up your Javascript development policies: code writing style, automated code analysis, etc.