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Terkel Jungløw
Terkel Jungløw

Reputation: 55

How to open a project in WebStorm, using the command line (Windows 10)

I would like to open WebStorm from the command line.

My goal is, when I have navigated to the right directory on my PC, to use a command, which opens the current directory as a project in WebStorm.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5369

Answers (2)

just-be-weird
just-be-weird

Reputation: 1310

This happened to me recently on my MBP-M2. When I tried to open webstorm from the terminal, I received an error stating that webstorm is not a command. I fixed it by performing the following steps:

  1. Press the shift key twice to bring up the quick search menu.
  2. I then looked up 'command line lanchuer' and clicked on it.
  3. I continued by pressing OK on the next window.
  4. It will ask for system access permission; grant it.

It worked post this fix.

Search command line launcher

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Upvotes: 3

lena
lena

Reputation: 93748

The syntax to open a project from command line on Windows is path/to/WebStorm.exe path/to/your/project - see https://www.jetbrains.com/help/webstorm/2016.2/working-with-webstorm-features-from-command-line.html#d279626e72. You can add %WebStorm installation directory%/bin to your system %PATH% to be able to run WebStorm using WebStorm command instead of entering a full path to exe.

To open current directory as a project, you can (in principle) just run WebStorm .. But this doesn't currently work (IDEA-108586). You can try using WebStorm.bat . instead

Upvotes: 7

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