How to speed up WebStorm
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In huge project WebStorm (it can be other product of JetBrains) is always thinking and loading something.
This is really annoying me!
Intellij Idea Solutions
Solution 1 - Intellij Idea
Here is my recipe how to speed up your lovely WebStorm:
- Go to Preferences and do next:
- Appearance & Behaviour > System Settings > Updates: disable auto update
- Appearance & Behaviour > System Settings > Usage Statistics: Uncheck
Allow sending data usage statistics to JetBrains - Editor > Live Templates: disable all, leave only what you are really use
- Editor > Emmet: disable all emmets
- Editor > Intentions: I leave only: CSS, Declaration, JavaScript and Language Injection
- Plugins: leave only next (* - can be also disabled in case you don't need them):
- CoffeeScript *
- CSS Suport
- CVS Integration
- Git Integration
- HTML Tool
- IntelliLang
- JavaScript Debugger *
- JavaScript Intention Power Pack
- JavaScript Support
- NodeJS *
- Perforce Integration
- SASS suport *
- Project > Directories: Exclude all what you don't use
- Languages & Frameworks > JavaScript > Libraries: leave only: HTML and HTML5 / EcmaScript 5
- Languages & Frameworks > Compass: disable it
- Tools > WebBrowsers: leave only Chrome
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Help > Edit Custom VM Options: Edit and increase usage memory pwd:
-Xms1024m
-Xmx1536m
-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=512m
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
So the main idea is next: disable all in Preferences what you really don't use and increase memory for IDE.
Solution 2 - Intellij Idea
There is a "Power Save Mode" setting in the files menu. This will disable some syntax highlighting and stuff, but will improve the speed of any JetBrains IDE.
Solution 3 - Intellij Idea
Also check out ScriptedAlchemy's jetbrains-ide-performance github repository - and be sure to check out the updated settings in the issues. Disabling unused global symbols (search for it in the settings, it's under inspections) also seems to help.