But wouldn’t you know it, I’m here now, writing this article about what finally convinced me to abandon the IDE that has been by my side since day one. And… I begrudgingly agreed, thinking it’d be a one and done thing (and so that the finally meeting could end). During one of our daily stand-up meetings, my co-worker, Emerson, was adamant about the JetBrains ecosystem and extended the meeting trying to convince one of us to give it a whirl. Now just a bit of background, I work at Blankly where we enable people to build trading algorithms on hedge-fund level cloud infrastructure in minutes instead of months. I would’ve even offered up my left kidney, fighting for the fact that VS Code was superior (just like M1 Pro Macs are) to any other IDE on the market. And sure, before I tried out the JetBrains ecosystem, I would’ve completely agreed. You’d think that after five years of coding in one IDE, I would be out of my mind to leave the VS Code. I cannot highlight some syntax, for example, global variables in JS, Generic Type in TS.Call me crazy if you have to. Since VSCode relies on textmate scopes as a selector for theme which sometimes cannot differentiate some syntax like WebStorm. Git status for each line after line number.

Git status in filename (Add, Modify, Untracked, removed).

If you want to add more language support or have any idea to improve syntax highlighting, feel free to make a pull request.

CSS, SCSS, TailwindCSS, styled-components.

Installationĭownload from VS Marketplace Language Support I've tried most of IntelliJ Darcula theme available on VSCode marketplace, none of them is close enough to the WebStorm vibe for my liking, so I decided to create my own.

As close as possible to IntelliJ WebStorm Darcula theme, (and some improvements)

Download webstorm vscode