Webstorm has become way to slow and heavy
Hi all, -
I am not writing this post because i need help, i am writing it because i am very annoyed by how webstorm is working lately.
So i have two projects
Both are node.js apps. One project works good most of the time, but other one is terrible. I cannot scroll the file because how bad it works. I know that at one moment with 2017.1.4 version i think, even the project which is working good wasn't. With 2017.2 it works but still it has it's moments.
I really hope you will do something very fast, otherwise i will move to Visual Studio Code (and i don't want to to that) as it works for some reason flawlessly on both apps with all required plugins/settings.
Thing is that webstorm is paid product and as that it should be better then free? Yes? No?
Anyway if i can provide logs, or anything you need.
One advice is that instead of this tool being so big/robust, make it small/clean and then give user ability to chose extensions/plugins he need. It can simply give proposal of the plugins once user import specific project. Open him then a guide window and tell him "hey man this are plugins which will give you best work for this type of project and it will still be fast"
Thanks and sorry if i offended.
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Please try taking CPU snapshots when it runs slow - see https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241235-Reporting-performance-problems
Also, I'd recommend excluding all folders dynamically generated by build tools (
www,dist, etc) from your project (Mark directory as/Excluded). This would reduce the overall code base size and help to avoid project re-indexing while saving generated files to diskHi Elena, -
Files are excluded, don't worry. Here are the links of the CPU profiling.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2kpAjnAet-iUXd0SlJvbWNNcXM?usp=sharing
I hope this will help you.
Can you check if turning off 'Unused JavaScript/ActionScript global symbol' inspection (Settings | Editor | Inspections, JavaScript/General) makes things any better?
Zoran,
I concur with your observations. There was virtually no perceivable lag with version's < 2017... but in this latest major version, its just plain frustrating :-(
@CraigJ please provide CPU snapshots. Your issue is not necessary the same as the one reported by Zoran
Hi @Zoran.
Try this... Window > Editor Tabs > Split vertically.
I've noticed (by accident) that splitting the editor tabs seems to make the IDE "slightly" more responsive.
I've been using WebStorm for so many year now, maybe 10? It's only gotten slower and slower.
Today in 2024, I have a large Node.js project, with several files around 3000 SLOC each. The project uses typescript-eslint. In WebStorm 2024.1, performance is so horrible in one of those large files, that I have to wait 10 seconds after I make an edit for the linting underlines to update. In VSCode this happens in one second.
I've filed an issue about this, but this is just one example of WebStorm being much, MUCH slower than VSCode.
Thank you for reporting the issue, we'll look into it.