WebStorm

New Features

New in WebStorm 6

New technologies supported

• TypeScript - supports TypeScript syntax highlighting, on-the-fly error checking and code completion.
• Sass stylesheets - now supports custom function definition, completion and renaming. Highlights incorrect @-keywords and supports nested properties.
• LESS support - includes code insight for mixins.
• Google Dart - now supported out of the box.
• CoffeeScript - has its own code formatter options and introduces support for deconstructed parameters and parameters with the @ prefix.

Core web development improvements

• Live edit - easier to use and now supports HTML5 live editing.
• Improved HTML and CSS coding - re-designed HTML structure view with special support for HTML5 and support for Emmet snippets in the editor.
• JavaScript libraries - work transparently with minimised and compiled files stored in the project tree. The IDE smartly uses them for code completion and navigation only when needed.
• Code validation tools - validate your JS against Google Closure Linter (new in WebStorm 6) along with JSHint, JSLint and more.
• Built-in HTTP server - view and debug code instantly without setting up your own server.
• REST Client - integrated REST client lets you test RESTful web services right from the IDE. Invoke different requests over HTTP (GET, POST, PUT and others) to RESTful APIs with various parameters and get response and response headers.

IDE improvements

• New theme - Darcula is a new native dark UI theme.
• Retina-adapter icons - for the new MacBook.

New in WebStorm 5

• Live HTML/CSS/JS editing for Google Chrome - use WebStorm and Google Chrome side-by-side and see changes immediately in your browser.
• Google Closure Compiler JSDoc annotations support - most Google Closure compiler JSDOC tags are now supported and are used in code completion, parameter info and documentation lookup.
• Jade templates - features code completion for all Jade statements, code completion for HTML tags and their attributes according to the selected doctype, file path completion and validation in 'extends' or 'include' statements and more.
• JavaScript - featuring support for JSTestDriver unit tests, project-level JS library support and improved code completion.
• Stylesheets: CSS/Sass/LESS - enhanced support for Sass/SCSS with enhanced code completion, navigation, formatting and support for advanced constructs.
• IDE General - general enhancements include support for external merge tools, an enhanced 'Recent files' popup, FTPS support for deployment routines and more.