For a number of years I used the jetbrains IDE's (at alternating times I used phpstorm, webstorm and intellij), commonly perceived as best in class. Then I swit

For a number of years I used the jetbrains IDE's (at alternating times I used phpstorm, webstorm and intellij), commonly perceived as best in class. Then I switched employers to a place that had standardized on VS code, so I moved over as well. I have to say that while it was hard to get used to in the beginning, it is surprising how good VS code is. I get 80% of the featureset of jetbrains' products, for free. Specifically, all of the features you mentioned VS code does just as well when doing web dev. The only thing I'm missing is the framework-specific automation helping you easily set up projects, builds, unit tests, and so on. VS code can automate those things, but there is more googling involved.