I gave up on WebStorm as it kept freezing and couldn't handle big projects with lots of JSX compilation and other stuff. Recently I switched to Visual Studio and I am really liking it so far. How do you like Visual Studio? Any tips/suggestions?
Have you tried Visual Studio and Jetbrans Resharper together? That's completely different experience comparing to Visual Studio. However, Resharper is not free and it slows down the performance. All have a price. By the way, the latest version of Resharper improved support of the JSX files.
It depends on what project Im working on but I use Visual Studio almost all the time mostly because of its powerful debugger and profiling tools. I do a lot of Node.js and other web related stuff so I added plugins to VS and it works perfect. I also started using Atom, and previously I used Brackets and sublime. I really like Atom but like the others, is just a code editor with lots of nice things. If you are looking for a powerful IDE go with VS, if you need just a lightweight editor I recommend Atom.
Note: Visual Studio Code is also a great option as a code editor, it also packs things like a debugger and other tools that make it work as a light IDE, good enough for Node.js projects as well.
Oded Welgreen
Full stack developer, musician and gamer
Do you mean Visual Studio Code?
I use Visual Studio for .Net stuff but for JS I find Atom to be the fastest and with the biggest ecosystem. I tried WebStorm, Brackets, Sublime Text and Visual Studio Code. VS Code seems like it has great potential but is still lacking support for different languages and extensions.
Visual Studio has good support for JS but after using Atom it just feels heavy.