That's the sad reality we're living in - the perceived value of software is decreasing, customers aren't willing to pay, and the subscription model is taking over. Now, this might tick or even completely discourage many developers from even giving WebStorm a try. It's important to note that the cost goes down with time, and so if you pay for WebStorm for 3 years in a row, you can from then on pay only $35/year for it. It costs $5.90/month or $59/year for individuals and a fair bit more for organizations. While VS Code is mostly open-source and certainly 100% free, WebStorm is neither of those two. Out of the gate, I'd like to tackle the single reason why you might scrap the idea of using WebStorm all together, and that's pricing. It's developed by JetBrains - a company with years of experience in creating powerful IDEs for a variety of programming languages.īeing a full-blown IDE it is, WebStorm provides you with an impressive set of features and web development tools, with decent performance thanks to its JVM backing. WebStorm is one of the most well-known and profound JavaScript IDEs. Under the hood, it uses Electron (framework for creating desktop apps with web technologies) and is heavily customizable and extendable. It's developed by Microsoft, together with a large open-source community.

VS Code is arguably the most popular code editor in the world right now - and for sure among web developers.

Let's dive in! Contendersįirst off, let's get to know more about our actual contenders. This time it'll be the most likely known to you VS Code and WebStorm - a web development IDE from JetBrain's IDEs family.

So, today we'll be doing something similar in the meaning that we'll be comparing 2 very popular coding environments. Even though a fair bit of time has passed since then it stood the test of time quite well. Some time ago, I've written an article comparing VS Code with Atom.

Webstorm cost