I had to move off WebStorm after the sheer amount of memory it used to chew up.

Agree - VSCode is such a good IDE, I'm constantly seeing it replace editors other devs have relied on for some time.

whenever I try Webstorm, my laptop starts sounding like an Airbus A380. What makes VSCode different from Atom though is, VScode uses Monaco which is significantly better and also the start up is faster with VSCode.

Yep exactly my experience with Android Studio, to the point I started enjoying Eclipse again.

I miss the test runners from WebStorm, that hasn't been enough to stop me from switching to VSCode though.

How are other people doing ES6 work with WebStorm?

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I am a very happy Jetbrains customer (ultimate, paid in full).

Now doing nodejs work. (Not a fan, it's just a job.) Really want to use latest, greatest (eg await/async). I tried to make the babel plugin workflow thingie work. Bleh.

I'll give VSCode another shot. Last effort, I stumbled on the npm package.json support. The npm plugins I tried baffled me. (Again, not a fan of npm, it's just a job.)