What changed in WebStorm from 2025 to 2026

• Updating a backend-only plugin no longer causes updating the plugin on the frontend (IJPL-253782).
• We've fixed an IDE freeze in Dev Containers (IJPL-252292).
• We've improved the appearance of the Settings | Tools | MCP Server | Exposed Tools page (IJPL-248441). For more details, please see the release notes.

For details, please see the release notes.

What's fixed:

• We've introduced the Figma Connect for WebStorm plugin. Select a layer in your Figma file and get its design context directly in WebStorm. The context is attached to the AI Chat automatically. Requires a one-time setup. Read the blogpost for more details.
• We've bundled a Chrome DevTools CLI skill into WebStorm, so AI agents can open Chrome, read console logs and network requests, take screenshots, and interact with the running page. One-time package installation on first use, automatic startup after that.
• We've restored compatibility between the Svelte plugin and GoLand 2026.2 (WEB-78987). For more details, please see the release notes.

Resolved issues affecting projects containing files stored in cloud-synced folders on Windows (IJPL-25070), preventing repeated project reloads, endless re-imports, and files from disappearing or closing unexpectedly (IJPL-250598, IJPL-250615, IJPL-250539). For more details, please see the release notes.

What's fixed:

• We've added support for @vue/language-server 3.0.0 (WEB-73932).
• We've extended support for Svelte (WEB-70810, WEB-73120, WEB-72801, WEB-62966, WEB-70432, WEB-70333)
• We've introduced multiple improvements to the Search Everywhere funtionality (IJPL-237834, IJPL-234737, IJPL-243626, IJPL-239455, IJPL-243357, WEB-78242).
• Color preview for CSS color() and color-mix() now works in SASS, SCSS, and Less files (WEB-76917, WEB-76104).
• Remote Development is no longer in the Beta state and supports the required use cases (WEB-77898).
• We've replaced the obsolete Rhino JavaScript engine used by JSHint with the Node.js-based JSHint npm package (WEB-78069).
• We've added special formatting for JSDoc @linkcode in the Documentation popup and tool window (WEB-70925).
• We've added automatic detection of the Node.js runtime in Native Dev Containers, thus preventing failures of GUI test runners (WEB-77458).
• We've upgraded the bundled TypeScript version to 6.0.3 (WEB-78250).
• We've updated tsconfig and jsconfig schemas to support ES2025 and ES2026 (WEB-78158).
• We've fixed the Figma plugin, so it allows for multiple design connections to %instance% at the same time (WEB-78481).
• We've enhanced support for TypeScript Go (WEB-78522, WEB-77663, WEB-78658).
• We've added support for TypeScript GO in Angular applications (WEB-77722). For more details, please see the release notes.

What's fixed:

• We've restored the behavior of logMainMenuLatency so it no longer logs timestamp instead of delta (IJPL-248294).
• We've added support for reporting freezes automatically in the non-eap or non-internal mode (IJPL-246892). For more details, see the release notes.

What's fixed:

• We've restored the correct IDE behavior on detecting SQL in JavaScript/TypeScript literals and quoted strings (WEB-77972). For more details, please see the release notes.

What's fixed:

• We've provided a perform GC (clean runtime caches) workaround for problems that occurred in Vue 2.x projects (WEB-77818, WEB-77481).
• We've got rid of a PsiInvalidElementAccessException.createByNode exception (WEB-77249). For more details, please see the release notes.

What's fixed and improved:

• Service-powered Type Engine is now enabled by default in Angular.
• Fixed the issue with TypeScript Go paths not working with Node.js from WSL and pnpm (WEB-76494).
• Optimized module status detection when resolving package.json exports (WEB-77261).
• Implemented asynchronous incremental import graph building (WEB-77062).
• Fixed delayed highlighting updates in Astro files (WEB-77350).
• Added the ability to extract a React component into its own file (WEB-45372).
• Added support for TypeScript in Svelte 5 markup expressions (WEB-61819).
• Improved support for namespaced components in Svelte (WEB-61817).
• Added support for Svelte {#each} blocks without an item (WEB-72160).
• Discontinued support for SSI in the built-in web server.

Visit our blog to learn more about the new functionality and the latest enhancements. Here are the highlights:

• Service-powered TypeScript engine enabled by default
• Junie, Claude Agent, and Codex available directly in the AI chat
• ACP Registry for discovering and installing agents
• Next edit suggestions
• Support for new React 19 directives
• Vite with Solid and Qwik templates as default React project generator
• Support for modern Angular features introduced in version 21 and later
• Support for modern CSS features
• Vue TypeScript integration updates
• Support for @attach attachements introduced in Svelte 5
• Codex autoconfiguration in the MCP Server settings
• Running and debugging via multiple run configurations in the Services tool window
• Optimized search for the tsconfig.json root directory
• Improved rootDir calculation for projects with TypeScript 6.0 and later, so the directory with tsconfig is used by default
• UI improvements to the editor, tool windows, Terminal, and popups
• Improved appearance and behavior of the Marketplace tab on the Plugins page of the Settings dialog
• Improved Git and GitLab integration
• Enhanced DevContainers support
• Bundled JetBrains Daemon to enable early testing and feedback
• Performance improvements