And if it's not in a plug-in, then you can handle it with the File Watchers. All WebStorm docs about how-to setup Node.js and etc are suitable for PhpStorm setup. Most external tools/tasks can be handled with WebStorm. I have an open project in PhpStorm that I manage using SourceTree. PhpStorm still officially has all WebStorm functionality. It's also recommended to more explicitly represent your workflow within WebStorm itself.

You may also find a sample calculator project with created run configurations and config. It should be noted though that this is easily remedied by going to File/Settings/System Settings and checking the 'Synchronize Files on frame or editor tab activation' option. js in WebStorm, IntelliJ IDEA, Rider, PhpStorm, RubyMine, or P圜harm. You usually remember to do that anyway after you've been trying to track down a bug on a line of JavaScript that Webstorm says doesn't exist for the last two hours.

There's a feature in the context-menu for manually synchronising directories with their real filesystem equivalent, but this shouldn't be necessary and is annoying to do. If you have an external tool acting on your project (such as a gulp task or a third-party Git client), what you see in the file browser or in open tabs becomes out-of-date. PhpStorm is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for PHP and web developers, which is engineered by JetBrains.

The Java wrapper around the filesystem doesn't actively watch for file changes (by, for example, using the fsevents api on OS X), and as a result can become easily desynchronised from the actual filesystem.

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