To see the difference open your project, which was developed in VS Code with WebStorm, and run the code inspection. This can significantly impact the code quality of a sizeable Angular code base, which was mainly developed using VS Code. But if you are, for example, using a TypeScript project (like Angular) VS Code does not detect unused public methods. You can also detect unused methods in JavaScript methods using VS Code and ESLint with the rules no-unused-vars and no-unreachable. It also indexes your whole project and can, for example, detect all unused methods, variables, and more. This analysis detects language and runtime errors and suggests corrections and improvements. WebStorm provides a robust, fast, and flexible static code analysis.

In the following article, I talk about my experience using WebStorm in a sizeable Angular application which was mainly developed in VS Code.

This is a scorching topic, and I know this will cause some controversy. If I talk about using WebStorm, I also talk about using IntelliJ IDEA. IntelliJ IDEA provides the same functionality as WebStorm plus a lot of other features.

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