In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WebStorm on CentOS 7. For those of you who didn’t know, WebStorm is a smart and featured IDE for JavaScript developed by JetBrains. It also gives aid for Typescript and CSS etc. You can Extend WebStorm attributes. By using WebStorm Plugins it is also possible to get support for frameworks like Node.js, Angularjs, etc. We could use WebStorm for other programming languages such as HTML, SQL, CSS, and much more.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation WebStorm on a CentOS 7.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: CentOS 7.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install WebStorm on CentOS 7

Step 1. First, let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

yum clean all
yum -y update

Step 2. Installing WebStorm on CentOS 7.

First, we will download WebStorm using the official WebStorm download page using wget command:

sudo wget https://download-cf.jetbrains.com/webide/WebStorm-2018.3.2.tar.gz
tar -xvf WebStorm-2018.3.2.tar.gz
cd WebStorm-2018.3.2

Now to run WebStorm like normal programs you should create a symbolic link using the following command:

sudo ln -s ./WebStorm-2018.3.2/bin/webstorm.sh /usr/bin/webstorm

You can launch WebStorm using the following command:

webstorm

Finally, step, You will get the following output after accepting the license and importing settings for setting up the initial configuration:

Congratulations! You have successfully installed WebStorm. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing WebStorm on CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official WebStorm website.