Can IntelliJ IDEA encapsulate all of the functionality of WebStorm and PHPStorm through plugins

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I am in the market for a new IDE but am confused about the overlap between some of Jetbrains  offerings  It looks like IntelliJ IDEA has plugins that allow you to do Node js and php development    Can IntelliJ IDEA do everything that WebStorm and PHPStorm do through plugins or do they have special features not available in IDEA  I am hoping to have a single polyglot IDE for all development

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Definitely a great question  I ve noted this also as a sub question of the choice for versions within IDEa  that this link may help to address        http   www jetbrains com idea features editions comparison matrix html   it as well potentially possesses a ground work for looking at your other IDE choices and the options they provide   I m thinking WebStorm is best for JavaScript and Git repo management  meaning the HTML5 CSS Cordova kinds of stacks  which is really where  I believe along with others  the future lies and energies should be focused now    but ya it depends on your needs  etc   Anyway this tells that story too    http   www jetbrains com products html

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All of the functionality of our lightweight IDEs can be found within IntelliJ IDEA  you need to install the corresponding plug-ins from the repository   It includes support for all technologies developed for our more specific products such as Web PhpStorm  RubyMine and PyCharm  The specific feature missing from IntelliJ IDEA is simplified project creation   quot Open Directory quot   used in lighter products as it is not applicable to the IDE that support such a wide range of languages and technologies  It also means that you can t create projects directly from the remote hosts in IDEA  If you are missing any other feature that is available in lighter products  but is not available in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate  you are welcome to report it and we ll consider adding it  While PHP  Python and Ruby IDEA plug-ins are built from the same source code as used in PhpStorm  PyCharm and RubyMine  product release cycles are not synchronized  It means that some features may be already available in the lighter products  but not available in IDEA plug-ins at certain periods  they are added with the plug-in and IDEA updates later

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I regularly use IntelliJ  PHPStorm and WebStorm   Would love to only use IntelliJ   As pointed out by the vendor the  Open Directory  functionality not being in IntelliJ is painful   Now for the rub part  I have tried using IntelliJ as my single IDE and have found performance to be terrible compared to the lighter weight versions   Intellisense is almost useless in IntelliJ compared to WebStorm

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But here s the rub  sometimes you can t or don t want to wait  For example I want to use the new support for RubyMotion which includes RubyMotion project structure support  setup of rake files  setup of configurations that are hooked to iOS Simulator etc   RubyMine has all of these now  IDEA does not  So I would have to generate a RubyMotion project outside of IDEA  then setup an IDEA project and hook up to that source folder etc and God knows what else   What JetBrains should do is have a licensing model that would allow me  with the purchase of IDEA to use any of other IDEs  as opposed to just relying on IDEAs plugins    I would be willing to pay more for that i e  say 50 bucks more for said flexibility    The funny thing is  I was originally a RubyMine customer that upgraded to IDEA  because I did want that polyglot setup  Now I m contemplating paying for the upgrade of RubyMine  just because I need to do RubyMotion now  Also there are other potential areas where this out of sync issue might bite me again   For example torque box workflow   deployment support   JetBrains has good IDEs but I guess I m a bit annoyed

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IntelliJ IDEA vs WebStorm features  IntelliJ IDEA remains JetBrains  flagship product and IntelliJ IDEA provides full JavaScript support along with all other features of WebStorm via bundled or downloadable plugins  The only thing missing is the simplified project setup   Taken from   https   confluence jetbrains com display WI WebStorm FAQ WebStormFAQ-IntelliJIDEAvsWebStormfeatures

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