Exploit the functional power of WebStorm to build better JavaScript applications!
Developers call WebStorm "the smartest JavaScript IDE", and this couldn't be any truer. It outperforms all its competitors and offers some very interesting features such as intelligent code assistance, debugging and testing, seamless integration of various tools, VCS integration, and many more.
This book is aimed at helping the reader get the benefit of all the features and possibilities that WebStorm brings to the world of frontend development.
We will go through all current technologies, building everything from simple websites to single page applications with Angular and Meteor and native mobile applications using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. We will also go through some of WebStorm's power features that will help us boost our productivity and enhance developer experience!
Chapter 1, Getting Started with WebStorm, tells you concisely about WebStorm 10 and its new features. It helps you install it, guides you through its workspace, discusses setting up a new project, familiarizes you with the interface and useful features, and describes the ways to customize them to suit your needs.
Chapter 2, Improving Your Efficiency with Smart Features, exposes the most distinctive features of WebStorm, which are at the core of improving your efficiency in building web applications.
Chapter 3, Developing Simple Web Pages, describes the process of setting up a new project with the help of templates by importing an existing project, serving a web application, and using File Watchers.
Chapter 4, Using Package Managers and Build Automation Tools, describes using package managers and building systems for your application by means of WebStorm's built-in features.
Chapter 5, AngularJS, React, Express, and Meteor – Developing Your Web Application, focuses on the state-of-the-art technologies of the web industry and describes the process of building a typical application in them using the power of WebStorm features.
Chapter 6, Immersing Yourself in Mobile App Development, shows you how to use JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to develop a mobile application and how to set up the environment to test run this mobile application.
Chapter 7, Analyzing and Debugging Your Code, shows how to perform the debugging, tracing, profiling, and code style checking activities directly in WebStorm.
Chapter 8, Testing Your Applications, presents a couple of proven ways to easily perform application testing in WebStorm using some of the most popular testing libraries.
Chapter 9, Getting to Know Additional yet Powerful Features, is about a second portion of powerful features provided within WebStorm. In this chapter, we focus on some of WebStorm's power features that help us boost productivity and developer experience.
This book will guide you through the installation of all the tools that you need to follow the examples. You will need to install WebStorm version 10 to effectively run the code samples present in this book.
This book is intended for web developers with no knowledge of WebStorm yet but who are experienced in JavaScript, Node.js, HTML, and CSS and reasonably familiar with frameworks such as AngularJS and Meteor.
In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."
A block of code is set as follows:
html, body, #map {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0
}Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
$ mkdir css $ cd css
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "The shortcuts in this book are based on the Mac OS X 10.5+ scheme."
For this book we have outlined the shortcuts for the Mac OX platform if you are using the Windows version you can find the relevant shortcuts on the WebStorm help page https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/help/keyboard-shortcuts-by-category.html.
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