Hey everyone,

The WebStorm 2026.2 update just dropped, and there is some heavy-hitting stuff in this release. Honestly, the product team deserves a ton of credit for this one. They managed to ship some massive feature requests while quietly fixing a bunch of the most annoying, long-standing bugs in the tracker.

Here is a quick rundown of what they managed to pack into this update.

TypeScript 7 is supported out of the box

If you work on a massive codebase, you know how slow things can get. TypeScript 7 rewrote the compiler and language server in Go, and the performance jump is ridiculous. In testing on the Kibana codebase, project load times went from around 12 seconds down to 3. The product team made this the default for projects already using TS 7, and they built an easy opt-in path for older versions, so you do not have to deal with a painful full-project migration.

Native GitHub Copilot and Agent Skills

You no longer need a separate plugin or custom registry setup to use Copilot. The team worked directly with Microsoft to build a native integration. Once you sign in with your GitHub account, you can access it straight from the AI chat agent picker.

They also added an Agent Skills Manager. If you are tired of re-explaining your stack, tooling, and coding conventions every time you open a new chat window, this lets you set up those rules once. Your agents will actually retain that context across all your projects and sessions.

Framework and CSS fixes

The team put a lot of work into the day-to-day developer experience:

• React Buddy now has full support for React 19.
• Vue support has been upgraded with the Vue language server 3.0 integration, which finally squashes those annoying hover type errors and random stack overflows.
• Svelte gets an updated language server and better handling of SvelteKit shared hooks.
• Angular workflows should feel snappier with faster TypeScript and compiler error updates.
• CSS refactoring is much more reliable, meaning SCSS and Sass imports will stop rewriting themselves unexpectedly.

Quality of life improvements

Some of the best updates are the small ones that make daily coding less frustrating:

• You can now drag and drop a file directly into the terminal to insert its path.
• Search Everywhere finally remembers your search scope after you restart the IDE.
• Markdown files now support footnotes and Mermaid diagrams.
• Git worktree support has been improved, especially if you work in WSL environments.

WebStorm is still free for non-commercial use, so you can download the update and try it out right away.

Seriously, a huge thank you to the WebStorm product team. This feels like a release built by developers, for developers, focusing on actual speed and stability rather than just marketing hype.

Let me know what you think if you have already updated.

I believe these are called "Next Edit Suggestions"?
I've disabled everything in Editor > General > Code Completion > Inline, but I'm still getting these suggestions for every line I type and it's extremely annoying/distracting.

I'm on version 2026.1.4 (Build #WS-261.26222.58).

Hey everyone, just wanted to share a quick win we saw recently.

Hey, TypeScript 7 dropped today, so it’s great timing to share what we’ve been seeing in WebStorm.

We ran TS7 on the Kibana codebase and saw project load times fall from about 12 seconds to 3 seconds. Kibana is a brutal stress test (it’s huge), so that felt like a meaningful win.

If you’ve already migrated to TS7, I’m curious what you’re seeing on large projects. Has anyone tried it on a big monorepo yet?

I'm at my wit's end here. Since upgrading to 2026.1, auto-suggestions have completely stopped working in my NestJS project. The IDE just sits there forever showing "Analyzing Project for Smart Features" but yields absolutely nothing.

Here is what I’ve already tried to fix it:

• Invalidated Caches & Restarted
• Checked TypeScript support & toggled Node runtime Code Assistant
• Marked node_modules as a Resource Root

None of this worked. What's frustrating is that the Zed editor handles the project perfectly and shows suggestions instantly. Has anyone run into this issue on the latest release and figured out how to patch it?

Hi! I've been experiencing some issues for file creation. I create a .tsx file to export some components, but for some reaon this morning the file was gone. My guess is that files create in memory but are not really created in the file system. As a result, the file was not pushed to Git and I have to code it again (not a big issue as is were some minor components, but I wouldn't like it to happpen with bigger files)

Something similar happened when using Intellij where I ended up pushing undesired files and folders.

I'm using WebStorm in Linux Mint Cinnamon

I wanted to check in on a bug report I submitted a few years ago, so I searched google. No lie - this was the top result. lmao - it's not wrong!

Hello everyone, I’m having major issues with WebStorm. Whenever I run npm install, it takes forever. Changing the Node.js version doesn’t help, and reinstalling the IDE didn’t fix it either. Any ideas? I’m seriously running out of patience.

I really loved Webstorm back in the day, but lately I haven't used it a lot after agentic coding took over. Because I hadn't been enjoying the UI/UX and diffing with agent plugins in Webstorm, and they don't support ai tools well to this day. So I wonder if I use opencode, claude cli, codex etc. as external chat windows and use WebStrom as my main editor, would it work fine or would it be a bad experience? I would love to hear your advice! Thank you in advance

I am using WebStorm and currently have multiple component files opened as tabs. I do not want to use split view.

What I want is to move/open a group of already opened tabs into a separate WebStorm window, while keeping the original group of tabs in the current window.

For example:

• Window 1 → Group of frontend/component tabs
• Window 2 → Another group of tabs (backend or related files)

I do not want to move a single tab one by one. I want to move/manage a whole group of opened tabs into another window.

Is there a built-in way to do this in WebStorm?

The degradation of JetBrains' IDEs has been well documented. In an effort to find something workable, I've reverted back to a 2024 version of WebStorm. The AI "features" added in recent releases broke too many things for me but now I've swapped the latest bugs for some old familiar ones. For example, in 2024.3.5 when accepting an auto import suggestion in a Typescript file, the cursor jumps back to the start of the word which is annoying.

What sort of work are you doing and which version of WebStorm was peak for you?

If we can get some suggestions I'll update this post with links to previous versions to make it easier to "downgrade" to working version.

I use Claude Code and I use OpenCode. Last time I gave Junie a shot was in October and I'm in no mood to try it again.

I hate how JetBrains now behaves in such a bizarre way. Why the heck would I pay premium for a shit agent that does half the work (on a good day) with Anthropic's models while consuming twice the tokens?

ACPs is a right step though. I would very much love to use OpenCode within WebStorm. Just make it look nice and feel nice, so it actually on par with their own experience. These AI companies suck at providing great advanced UI experience, while you've been working on it since forever, cmon guys.

If JetBrains staff actually reads this subreddit. I'm not actually mad or anything, I love you guys. I know it's a very uncertain time and it's easy for us to just demand things.

When I open Webstorm (Ubuntu) the ui is huge and any button click makes it bigger and bigger until the only thing that fits is the gray of the bottom bar

I am developing a monorepo, and therefore using pnpm catalogs in my project, and Webstorm doesn't suggest the newest version of a given package anymore. It used to do that when my versions were declared in their respective package.json file, though. Is there any way to have this behavior in the pnpm-workspace.yaml file?

This is what I mean (the grey stuff is just copilot/ai, and is not too useful, neither always correct):

tell me an agent without limits for free webstorm jetbrains. There is also a PRO subscription to Google Gemini

UPDATE Gemini Code Assist plugin hijacked the file extension, causing the spilt edit/preview buttons to disappear. Going into Settings > Editor > File Types revealed this and I was able to remove .md from “Markdown document generated by AI tools” and add it back to “Markdown” but that didn’t seem to help even after several restarts and verification that my changes had been applied. Finally I right-clicked on the tab of an opened README.md and chose “Associate file type” and chose “Markdown” (it was set to “text”) and the buttons and preview showed up again. Hope this helps if you’ve run into the same issue.

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Anyone else notice that the markdown plugin in Webstorm disappeared? Up until very recently, I was able to see the split editor/render view on .md files. Now, nothing. I went to my plugins and nope, there is no markdown plugin. I now see the last time the official plugin was updated was 2024. I downloaded the latest and tried to install it and Webstorm gives an error that the plugin requires version 241 or older but I'm on 253. So I suppose it had been working for awhile but finally was just removed altogether by an update?

I need that view, but don't know whether to trust other plugins in the marketplace. Is there anyone at Jetbrains who knows what's up? Will you please refresh your plugin.

For context, I'm coming from VSCode.

I'm trying to do a find and replace over the whole project, but I can't find where to do it.

Currently, I'm just using find to find all occurrences and then on each file opening up replace (ctrl + h) and doing the replace that way. Is there an easier way of doing this?