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Visual Studio 2015 is the only real player. Have you tried it? I've compared it to every other IDE and nothing comes close. Of course, you need to add quite a f

• smt88 10y ago
  I've extensively used WebStorm, VS2015, and VS Code for writing JavaScript and TypeScript (both server-side and client-side). VS2015 was the worst of the three. When it worked properly, it was pretty good, but it was incredibly bloated and buggy. It installs GBs of extras onto your machine that you have to painstakingly remove and hope they don't mess anything up. I dealt with a bug that required me to remove some packages and not others. It was a nightmare. WebStorm is the best, but it's absolutely loaded with features that most people won't use. VS Code supports most of these same features, but they must be implemented manually via config files and scripts. A lot of people will prefer the latter approach because it leads to a leaner starting configuration. I found the debuggers of all three to be fairly similar, although VS Code's was very slightly less usable. Edit: To clarify, I used VS Code and VS 2015 at the same time. After getting frustrated with both, I switched to WebStorm and haven't looked back. Every time I think up a "nice to have" feature, I find out that it already exists and is configurable via GUI.