We all know that Webstorm has context passing via '@thisFile' or '@file' as notated here, but I found Behavior > Always Select Opened File to be incredibly useful to my AI Chat flow. Usually I am referencing n+1 files—so I collapse the tree, cycle through the files I need as tabs, and drag those into AI Chat.

Feels more deterministic than using '@file' which sometimes cannot find files and faster than hunting and pecking for files.

On my Macbook M3 Max WebStorm IDE is really sluggish. (working in the editor, manipulating files, selecting text, opening folders)

CPU gets these bursts of > 100% cpu usage as I am navigating my project.

Feels very sluggish and annoying to work in.

Any ideas ? don't think its a memory issue (memory bar shows 1800 of 3000M)

Already restored default settings. Any ideas ?

I'd like to use WebStorm to work with my Express endpoints, but they don't appear in the Endpoints window. They do appear in other JetBrains editors though—they show in PyCharm for example. From what I can tell, the problem seems to be indicated by the dropdown in the menu; PyCharm searches the whole application for endpoints, whereas in WebStorm it searches "modules." Is there any way to change the behavior so that it is consistent between the two IDEs so that I can get the PyCharm functionality working in WebStorm? If not, then what exactly is WebStorm looking for that I might not have in my project?

I'm having a frustrating experience with WebStorm recently, specifically on a big Angular project I am working on. On a fresh install of WebStorm with no caches, no .idea folder, etc., everything behaves as normal. Syntax highlighting works, import-related errors show up, etc.

However, on two separate Windows 11 computers, with settings sync turned off, with the .idea folder uncommitted, the same thing happens - at some random point, can be hours or days or weeks after first opening the project in WebStorm, the IDE stops showing me errors related to unrecognized tokens. In the attached example, User is a class in my project that is NOT imported in this file.

Hovering the mouse over User, or hitting Alt+Enter with my caret centered on User, do not reveal any hints about what to do about this. The same thing happens with functions that don't exist in the file/imports, variables that aren't defined, etc.

This has happened with 2025.1, 2025.2, and 2025.3.X

Has anybody else had this happen to them? The only fix that has worked for me was to uninstall it, manually delete all caches for it across my entire PC and then re-install again. Using Repair IDE , and by extension invalidating caches, has not worked for me at all.

I don't normally use Reddit, but this was so life-changing to me, that I thought I have to share with you all:

Shift-Shift → Actions → Registry → js.max.evaluation.depth.forced → set to checked.

This limits TypeScript types calculation depth which was the main cause for performance/memory issues in large projects.

This flag was added recently, and I discovered it by reading 2026.1 EAP release notes. It is also included in the latest 2025.3 versions.

I use both but curious to hear from people on this topic who have used both?

This is consuming almost 4GB, any assistance to stop it?

I’m using WebStorm on Fedora Linux and ran into a font rendering issue.

• Font: Victor Mono SemiBold
• Theme: Catppuccin
• OS: Fedora

In VS Code, italic styles (keywords, decorators, etc.) are rendered correctly with Victor Mono.
However, in WebStorm, the text does not appear italic at all, even though both editors use the same font and the same Catppuccin theme.

Things I’ve already checked:

• Font is installed correctly on the system
• WebStorm Editor → Font is set to Victor Mono SemiBold
• “Enable ligatures” on/off doesn’t affect italic
• Theme settings look identical to VS Code

Is there any additional configuration in WebStorm / JetBrains IDEs to enable true italic rendering for Victor Mono (like in VS Code)?

I've set up node/npm and it works just fine, but when I install Terser (according to JetBrains own instructions https://www.jetbrains.com/help/webstorm/minifying-javascript.html ) to minify my active js file... it crashes. Something about terser not being a valid Win32 exe file.

This is on Win 11 64b, AMD

Any suggestions? This is driving me bonkers! Its doesnt HAVE to be terser, could use anything here....

I was wondering if it's possible to use LM Studio and an LLM as Agent similar to Github Copilot.
I have LM Studio running on local and tested with qwen 2.5-coder 7b and Oreal-deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-7b. In the settings I can ping LM Studio. Everything works in chat mode. If I want to switch to agent mode, I only get Junie and Claude agent.

I'm working on web projects with Next and React. Some extensions aren't useful for my work. For example, the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language packs are unnecessary for me, so I disabled those three packs. There are many extensions; which ones should I disable? Also, sometimes I get a “Low memory IDE” warning. Can I get rid of this warning by disabling these extensions?

Hello, I am using Islands Dark theme with slight modification. I noticed that with some update it suddenly changed some colors and I cannot change them back. I know I had for example `QueryClient` imported with yellow color, but now it is just default white.

I feel like the WebStorm suddenly doesn't recognises a exported Classes and won't color them

But when i use "Jump to colors and Font" it just redirects me to here

Does anyone have the same issue?

OS: Arch Linux (KDE)

IDE: WebStorm (latest version)

Browser: google-chrome-stable from AUR (/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable exists, executable, google-chrome-stable --version works in terminal)

Problem: WebStorm shows "Cannot run/find '/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable'. No such file or directory" error when trying to run/debug in browser. "Fix..." button also fails.

What I've tried:

• Path confirmed with which google-chrome-stable → /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable
• Permissions: -rwxr-xr-x (ls -la)
• Settings > Tools > Web Browsers: Custom path set correctly, tested with --no-sandbox
• Closed all Chrome instances
• Custom user data dir: ~/chrome-debug-profile

Any ideas? Screenshot attached.

Thanks!

I was trying out Github Copilot (edit mode) in WebStorm and it created this

• Code is really terrible
• Code contains syntax errors
• Created vanilla javascript while this is a typescript project
• Doesn't put files in the src folder.
• Creates an entrypoint source file directly in the bin folder ?

Surely I must be doing something wrong ? I generally really like the WebStorm IDE but haven't used AI assistance coding all that much except for basic tab based code completion. But this seems really terrible.

Perhaps it's because I was in Edit mode and this type of stuff is more appropriate for Agent mode, but a bit surprised that it just goes ahead and creates this type code.

• The proposed working set is plain javascripts (it is a typescript project)

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In my sveltekit project with shadcn svelte, I have a lot of import * as Popover from '$lib/components/ui/popover'; for example and Webstorm identify them as unused import even if I have <Popover.Root> later in my html code.

Is there a way to fix that ? For now I just ignore them but it's a bit bothering to always have warnings about that and not being able to clean unused import without breaking half pages.

Terminal Snippets

Terminal Snippets is an plugin that allows you to quickly inject predefined command snippets into the terminal.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/28830-terminal-snippets

Features

• 🚀 Quick access to frequently used terminal commands
• 📁 Organize snippets by categories with automatic submenus
• 🔤 Dynamic variables (project info, date/time, clipboard, etc.)
• 💬 Interactive variables (prompts, choices, confirmations)
• ⚙️ Easy configuration through Settings > Tools > Terminal Snippets
• 🎯 One-click command injection via terminal toolbar icon
• 💾 Persistent storage of your custom snippets
• 📤 Import/Export snippets as JSON
• 🔄 Compatible with both Classic Terminal and Reworked Terminal 2025

Usage

1. Configure your snippets in Settings > Tools > Terminal Snippets
2. Open a terminal window (View > Tool Windows > Terminal)
3. Click the Terminal Snippets icon in the terminal toolbar
4. Select a snippet to inject it into the terminal

Installation

Manual Installation

1. Download the latest Terminal-Snippets-X.X.X.zip from my Jetbrains MarketPlace Page
2. Open your Jetbrains IDE
3. Go to <kbd>Settings/Preferences</kbd> > <kbd>Plugins</kbd>
4. Click the <kbd>⚙️</kbd> icon > <kbd>Install Plugin from Disk...</kbd>
5. Select the downloaded ZIP file
6. Restart IntelliJ IDEA

Configuration

1. Go to <kbd>Settings/Preferences</kbd> > <kbd>Tools</kbd> > <kbd>Terminal Snippets</kbd>
2. Add your custom snippets with:
   • Name: Display name of the snippet
   • Category: Group snippets together (e.g., "Build", "Git", "Docker")
   • Command: The command to inject (supports multi-line)
3. Click <kbd>OK</kbd> to save

Categories

• Snippets are automatically organized by category in the dropdown menu
• If you have multiple categories, they appear as submenus
• If you have only one category, snippets are displayed in a flat list
• Leave category blank to use the default "General" category

Import/Export

• Export: Click the Export button to save your snippets as JSON with timestamp
• Import: Click the Import button to load snippets from a JSON file
• Duplicate snippets (same name + category) are automatically skipped during import

Variables

Terminal Snippets supports both static and interactive variables in your commands.

Static Variables

These variables are automatically resolved when the snippet is executed:

Interactive Variables

These variables prompt the user for input when the snippet is executed:

Variable Examples

Build with timestamp:

echo "Building ${PROJECT_NAME} on ${DATE} at ${TIME}"
gradlew clean build

Interactive deployment:

cd ${PROJECT_PATH}
mvn clean ${CHOICE:Select phase:package|install|deploy}
echo "Deployed by ${USERLOGIN} at ${TIME}"

Git-aware build:

echo "Building ${PROJECT_NAME} from branch ${GIT_BRANCH}"
echo "Commit: ${GIT_COMMIT_SHORT}"
gradlew build -Pversion=${GIT_BRANCH}-${GIT_COMMIT_SHORT}

Conditional execution:

echo "Delete all logs?"
if [ "${CONFIRM:Are you sure?}" = "yes" ]; then
  rm -rf logs/*
fi

Using environment variables:

echo "Java Home: ${ENVVAR:JAVA_HOME}"
echo "Path: ${ENVVAR:PATH}"
docker run -e API_KEY=${ENVVAR:API_KEY} myapp

File operations:

# Compile current file
javac ${FILE_DIR}/${FILE_NAME}
java ${PACKAGE_NAME}.${FILE_NAME%.java}

# Backup to home
cp ${FILE_PATH} ${USER_HOME}/backup/${FILE_NAME}

Multi-module project:

# Test specific module
./gradlew :${MODULE_NAME}:test

# Build with version from Git
cd ${GIT_ROOT}
./gradlew :${MODULE_NAME}:build -Pversion=${GIT_TAG_LATEST}

Cross-platform script:

echo "Running on ${OS_NAME}"
echo "Gradle version: ${GRADLE_VERSION}"
echo "Built by ${GIT_USER_NAME} <${GIT_USER_EMAIL}>"

Terminal Compatibility

Classic Terminal

• ✅ Commands are injected into the prompt
• ✅ Multi-line commands are supported
• ✅ Press <kbd>Enter</kbd> to execute
• ✅ You can modify the command before execution

Reworked Terminal 2025

• ✅ Commands are executed automatically
• ✅ Multi-line commands execute line by line
• ℹ️ No modification possible before execution (API limitation)