In this article, I will show you how to install WebStorm on Ubuntu. You can download WebStorm from the official website of JetBrains. First, go to the official website of JetBrains at from your favorite web browser. Once the page loads, hover over Tools and click on WebStorm as marked in the screenshot. Now, click on DOWNLOAD as marked in the screenshot below. Your browser should prompt you to save the file. Once the WebStorm archive is downloaded, you’re ready to install it.įirst, navigate to the ~/Downloads directory where the WebStorm archive is saved.Īs you can see, WebStorm tar.gz archive is here. Now, run the following command to extract the WebStorm archive to /opt directory. $ /opt /WebStorm-183.4588.66 /bin /webstorm.shĪs you’re running WebStorm for the first time, you have to do a little bit of initial configuration.

As you don’t have any WebStorm configuration yet, you have nothing to import. So, select Do not import settings and click on OK. You can either select the dark theme Darcula or the Light theme. Once you’re done selecting a UI theme, click on Next: Desktop Entry. Now, you have to create a desktop entry for WebStorm. This way, you can easily access WebStorm from the Application Menu of Ubuntu.

To do that, make sure both of the checkboxes are checked. Once you’re done, click on Next: Launcher Script. If you want to open WebStorm projects from the command line, check Create a script for opening files and projects from the command line. Once you’re done, click on Next: Featured plugins.

Now, WebStorm will suggest you some important plugins that you can install if you want. If you like any of the plugins from here, just click on Install to install it.

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