JetBrains releases WebStorm 2016.3
News|by Leanne Bevan|15 November 2016
Improving support for ES6, TypeScript, and Flow and integrate more tools into the IDE, WebStorm 2016.3 will help users develop more smoothly and productively not only for the web but also for mobile.
WebStorm 2016.3 is jam-packed with new features! Here are the highlights:
- Support for Flow: type errors are reported right in the editor; Flow-powered code completion
- Support for React Native: code completion, running and debugging apps in WebStorm
- Better TypeScript support: more precise code completion and analysis powered by the TypeScript language service; smarter Rename refactoring that understands the inheritance hierarchy
- Set of inspections and quick-fixes for migrating the code to ES6 and a new Convert to class intention
Among other noticeable updates: integration with Stylelint, support for PostCSS via a plugin, running and debugging tests with Protractor, quick bootstrap to run and debug Node.js app in Docker, better support for ES6 destructuring, and even more!
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