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I'm a JavaScript / typescript guy, so for me these past few years VS code has been leaps and bounds ahead of WebStorm w/ extensions,etc.

But lately I've been using Datagrip for SQL stuff,and geez, did Jetbrain crush the competition w/ this product.

...once I switched the shortcuts to match VS Code's, that is



Could you elaborate? VS Code is faster/leaner than WebStorm, that's for sure, but are there any specific workflows that you feel VSCode is better than WS?


I found WebStorm a bit overwhelming when I first tried it (I was fairly new at the time), which made any workflow a little difficult for me out of the gate.

That, and I remember Staples of the JS ecosystem (eg ESLint) being somewhat difficult to set up. Maybe they were simple if one knew the Jetbrain workflows, but for me, esp. compared to VS Code, it seemed a huge undertaking just to get ESLint to work.

Actually, here's an SO question I posted awhile back about ESLint in WebStorm (well, intelliJ). This was shortly before I made the switch to Code.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34700062/intellij-plugin...


These days PyCharm (and as such, probably WebStorm too) just auto-configures itself to ESlint files if it detects it's installed.


> But lately I've been using Datagrip for SQL stuff,and geez, did Jetbrain crush the competition w/ this product.

For me, "the competition" is the MySQL CLI. Is there and advantage to Datagrip assuming that one is reasonably proficient in SQL (at least the MySQL dialect)? Serious question. After running \# I've got table and field completion, and all the readline (pseudo-emacs) shortcuts work.


+1 for Datagrip, use it everyday




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