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Set up command line launcher in WebStorm 2024.2+

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If you're using WebStorm 2024.2+ without JetBrains Toolbox, it won't install command-line launcher automatically. Though, there's a menu "Tools > Create Command-line Launcher" that won't do anything useful, except showing you a link on how to do that, but it's bugged for now.

MacOS setup

  1. Create a file under the following location: "/usr/local/bin/webstorm"
  2. chmod +x /usr/local/bin/webstorm
  3. File contents:
#!/bin/sh

open -na "WebStorm.app" --args "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1 &

This would allow you to open any project in command-line, and type webstorm ., to open WebStorm in a current directory, without any errors.