Are there any frontend developers out there that use a full ide like webstorm, intellij or eclipse?

I can't seem to understand why everyone is mucking about in a text editor without breakpoints and such

Depends on your definition of IDE, most of them at my company use VS Code.
And nowadays even text editors have breakpoints. Notepad++ is the most famous one.

@Codex404 really? I didn't know. I've never seen anyone use breakpoints in vs code.

@ChappIO I use them for javascript when I only use frontend techniques in a project. If I also do backend then I will use IntelliJ. Both have breakpoints connected to the browser.

Normaly I use Sublime, but I tried webstorm to see if I should make a switch...

On my laptop webstorm was realy slow, and it did not offer anything that Sublime could't also do. And Sublime is fast as hell, not just the performence itself, but also the CTRL + Shift + P search for settings and functions is just amazing!

So yeah I will stick to Sublime for a while :-D

I'm a front-end developer and I use PHP storm. But then I do PHP as well as JavaScript, html & sass. Other people I know prefer VS Code but I think the benefits of an IDE outweigh the quicker load time.

If you use an IDE make sure you have an SSD to improve loading and indexing time, as well as lots of RAM.

Also, turn off indexing of compiled directories and files so it's not indexing files you'll never edit directly.

I really like vscode I know it's written by Microsoft but it's pretty sweet. It's fast it's smooth it just kind of works unlike pretty much everything else Microsoft make.