What are the advantages of PHPStorm over Visual Studio Code?

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From experience, what are the advantages of PHPStorm over Visual Studio Code with plugins when developing in a web stack (HTML/CSS/JS/PHP) with frameworks?
Or to put it another way, is it worth buying PHPStorm if there is a high-quality extensible free product.

Answer 1

I started with notepad++, then sublime, then buggy atom, then vscode, and finally phpstorm. Yes, I've tried all sorts of different editors. NetBeans, PHPeD (not a bad thing by the way), Eclipse. The storm has several advantages that elevate it above the competition. First of all, out of the box, it can do much more than it should. Convenient work with git? There is. (especially cool interface for merges). There is support for tests, there is emet ... yes, there is a lot of everything. At the same time, it works quite fast. It's one of the few ide's where you work and don't fight. I'm so used to the storm that any other editors don't go. Go into vscode, then pull up a bunch of plugins, tweak it all, catch a couple of bugs... no. I do not want. Tired.

Answer 2

VS Code is free, lightweight (yes, yes, there is an electron, but it works smartly). This is all I could survive. The rest is all individual, it all depends on how you set up your environment, how you study it. You can use a serious IDE, but knowing its functionality is very bad, what's the point then?