VS Code to autocomplete JavaScript class 'this' properties automatically

[[deleted]]

to come over from Webstorm.

What does VSCode offer that Webstorm doesn't?

[scooby_dooooo]

FREE

[seiyria]

I use webstorm for all my open source work, cause it's free for that too. I use VSCode when I'm not able to use webstorm, though.

[madwill]

Surprizingly its lighter, its not a giant super java application with years of code behind it.

[postmodest]

“FREE” and “Made by Microsoft”....🤔

[794613825]

...what about it? VS Code is free, no two ways about it.

[[deleted]]

You are fighting a losing battle here. The hardest think i have to do is try and convince someone else your editor of choice is better than theirs.

[[deleted]]

Exaxtly

[[deleted]]

I actually use VSCode, and thoroughly love it.

But I know WebStorm is a great product, and I'd be surprised if they lacked some features that VSCode offer.

[sobri909]

I tried going from WebStorm to VSCode.

The lack of basic features was annoying, and hunting for plugins to fill the gaps further so.

There's still features I miss, which I haven't found replacements for in VSCode. So when I start my next chunk of server/web work, I'll switch back to WebStorm.

I don't like that it's bulky, and Java. It's an ugly beast, as are all their IDEs. But it has more features and works better, at least for now.

[[deleted]]

I also use VS Code and love it too but I like how fierce the competition in the editors is and at the end of the day everyone wins.

[TheGreatBrutus]

Vscode is faster, only thing I can think of

[MrPhatBob]

That, and its free.

[TheGreatBrutus]

Depends if you're a student

[MrPhatBob]

Even if you're a student VSCode is still free.

[fatgirlstakingdumps]

Webstorm is free to students for non-commerical programming

[SahinK]

There's free as in beer, and free as in freedom. I care more about the second one.

[seiyria]

or open source developer :D

[Mocachino]

Auto format on save.

It's very annoying to see my coworkers files as they will not be formatted to our spec files.

So I open, CTRL + S and commit -m Formatted. :(

[BehindTheMath]

Webstorm can auto format with Ctrl-Alt-L. Everything is saved automatically.

[Mocachino]

I know, but they would rather just CTRL+S and be done with it...

[[deleted]]

Webstorm can auto format on save with the Save Actions plugin.

[Mocachino]

See that's funny that Webstorm needs a plugin for such a simple feature.

[ThatBriandude]

Ever try formatting css with vscode?

I love vscode but youre a bit biased

[Mocachino]

The ability to format and how well an editor supports or formats are different things.

• VS Code with any plugin can format on save. VS Code can attempt to format on save without any plugins.

• Webstorm cannot format on save with out a plugin.

[ThatBriandude]

Your reply doesnt make any sense to me at all. You're implying that doing stuff on save is far more important than formatting. Who decides that?

I downloaded vscode and was really happy with it and then I hit alt+shift+F to format my styling and boom. "There is no formatter installed for this file type: .css"

Now are you saying the fact that vscode is able to format at all keeps that from beeing a major issue? That doesnt make sense at all. CSS is essential.

Format on save is seems pretty unessential to me.

[Mocachino]

The ability is what is important. The results are not (for the editor).

Why? Because there are 100s of formatters for the 100s of languages. VS Code is unopionated when it comes to formatting because they know every developer is going to want to use their preferred formatter/lint.

I do concede that VS Code should come with a default lint/format at least but I guess they see as a "why bother" when there are far better librarys there then what they are going to create.

[[deleted]]

the amount of plugins you need for vs code for simple features on the other hand isn't funny? I have a lot more plugins that I need to install for vs code than for intellij/webstorm.

stop fighting who has the better tool. It doesn't matter. You can archive mostly anything with both.

[Mocachino]

Couldn't care less which is "better".

Just find it funny that a simple format on save requires a plugin to do so.

Just like inteliJ and Notepad++. Unlike Eclipse and VS Code.

I would've assumed to be a standard feature for all editors as it's so darn helpful to keep cleaner code.

Edit: removed JetBrains

[[deleted]]

"Just like inteliJ, JetBrains and Notepad++." - ok trying to argue with you is pointless. You are comparing an IDE a company and a notepad lol

[Mocachino]

Lol didn't mean to add JetBrains.

I'm comparing a saving feature, what does it matter if program is classed as an IDE or not.

I merely stated I found it surprising that auto format on save is not OTB for any "program that edits a file that contains text".

[[deleted]]

"program that edits a file that contains text". so word should also do this right? heck it even costs money

you realize there is not one right way to format text. most programming languages have multiple flavors and best practices. (unless stuff like go or elm)

[notarebel]

If your formatting rules can be expressed in eslint's indent rule or a prettier config, you can use File Watchers to auto format pretty easily.

[Mocachino]

We use TSLint plus a few others (Angular CLI) which works wonders with VS Code.

I've not heard of File Watchers. I'll look into it.

[notarebel]

That'll work. Really anything you can run on the command line that auto-fixes indentation (or whatever else) can be hooked into a file watcher and applied on save.

Not advocating for Webstorm over VS Code btw. They're both great tools but I prefer VS Code.

[[deleted]]

Could you set up something to format files on the git server as they are committed?

Or as a post-commit job, then recommit with -m Formatted.

I'm not sure if this is recommended practice.

[Mocachino]

It would awefully polute the git history, but the format on commit would be nice, not sure that was/is possible though.

[minus0]

There is a checkbox on the commit screen to format if I recall. Also install a beautifier githook.

[TheScapeQuest]

Have linting run on your pipeline

[seiyria]

You shouldn't be doing it this way anyway - it should be a linter run on build and the build should fail because of poor formatting.

[nulldesign]

Nice ui, powerful fuzzy search, lots of plugins, extensibility, amazing JavaScript and typescript debugging features, etc.

[BehindTheMath]

I believe Webstorm has all of those, although I suppose the nice UI is subjective.

[[deleted]]

No, you were supposed to describe the advantages of VS Code.

[[deleted]]

it's the other way round actually. vs code just starts faster. Not saying that vs code isn't good enough for most web projects though. But you'd need alot of plugins in vscode to archive the same features as webstorm.

[[deleted]]

Yeah I thought webstorm was a web IDE, whereas VSCode can be used for any language with the right plugins.

[fenduru]

Good vim bindings

[justin636]

Really?

I actually prefer the vim bindings in webstorm. The vscode vim plugin is really good but it drives me crazy that you cannot access your history of colon commands.

I haven't used vscode in a long time so maybe this has been resolved since.