How to speed up WebStorm

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Nazar Vynnytskyi · Apr 1, 2015 · Viewed 33.8k times · Source

In huge project WebStorm (it can be other product of JetBrains) is always thinking and loading something.

This is really annoying me!

Answer

Here is my recipe how to speed up your lovely WebStorm:

Go to Preferences and do next:
1. Appearance & Behaviour > System Settings > Updates: disable auto update
2. Appearance & Behaviour > System Settings > Usage Statistics: Uncheck Allow sending data usage statistics to JetBrains
3. Editor > Live Templates: disable all, leave only what you are really use
4. Editor > Emmet: disable all emmets
5. Editor > Intentions: I leave only: CSS, Declaration, JavaScript and Language Injection
6. 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 *
7. Project > Directories: Exclude all what you don't use
8. Languages & Frameworks > JavaScript > Libraries: leave only: HTML and HTML5 / EcmaScript 5
9. Languages & Frameworks > Compass: disable it
10. Tools > WebBrowsers: leave only Chrome
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.