Piotr Tomiak

Build Angular Faster with WebStorm
Spending too much time fighting your development tools instead of building your Angular app? This session shows you how to leverage WebStorm's intelligent code completion that understands Angular architecture, set up debugging workflows that actually work, and use refactoring tools that won't break your code.

Key topics include:

✔︎ How WebStorm provides Angular-specific code assistance: intelligent completions, error highlighting, and navigation within templates using Volar instead of Angular Language Service.
✔︎ Refactorings and quick fixes tailored for Angular (e.g., extract component, rename across templates and TypeScript).
✔︎ Managing component and TypeScript imports smartly (optimize imports automatically), and auto-formatting code consistently.
✔︎ Running Angular CLI commands directly within the IDE—generating components, modules, services—eliminating context switching.
✔︎ Using Live Templates to scaffold code, and using built-in support for running tests (single tests or entire suites) inside the IDE.
✔︎ Working in monorepos: multi-project support, path aliases, proper auto-import behavior, and structure-aware navigation.
✔︎ Practical tips and shortcuts (keyboard navigation, search everywhere, jump to definitions, breadcrumbs) to reduce friction in large Angular applications.
✔︎ How the upcoming AI and tooling enhancements in WebStorm 2025 (e.g., AI code suggestions, improved Angular support) tie into future workflows.

This session is ideal for Angular developers who want to spend less time battling tooling and more time writing features — whether you’re in small projects or large enterprise codebases.

Piotrek is a Software Developer in the WebStorm team at JetBrains. His main focus is support for HTML and web frameworks, especially Angular. He has a long history of working on tooling for Angular ever since early 2.0.0-beta versions.